Dubai: A fertility clinic in Dubai is to begin next week disposing of about 5,000 human embryos on religious grounds, an Emirati newspaper reported yesterday.
A 2008 federal law banned the storage of fertilised human eggs due to religion-based concerns over “mixing in the lineage” between families, the English-language Khaleej
Times said. It did not elaborate but Islam calls for children to know the identity of their biological parents and to take their biological father’s name.
Eggs can be fertilised outside the womb during In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), which produces excess fertilised eggs which can be frozen for future use.