Meaning of snowflake baby | Babel Free

Definitions

A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor.

Examples

“Once Caroline and Jeffrey gave their consent--or Caroline gave it for them--the eleventh embryo could become the snowflake baby it was meant to be.”

“Brownback's presentation included a series of following the development of a child, the result of a discarded embryo, a so-called snowflake''' baby.”

“The first snowflake baby was born in the late 1990s, but even with the President's public push, only a couple hundred snowflake children have been born in the United States during the past 10 years”

“It is possible to implant one of these embryos in the womb of a woman, letting her bear the child. This is called having a "snowflake" baby.”

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