A Nice "Katrina" Story

With all the controversy surrounding the rights and wrongs of "in-vitro fertilization", & frozen embryos and what happens to them, here is a story with a happy ending.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans there were 1,400 embryos frozen in canisters of liquid nitrogen at a hospital that housed one of the two labs for The Fertility Institute. Among them were the five frozen embryos that held a couple's chance to give their son (also "created" at the fertility clinic), a brother or sister.
The canisters can keep their contents frozen for weeks — but they're designed for use in an air-conditioned room, not a building where temperatures were soaring into the 100s without any electricity.
Dr. Belinda Sartor helped lead a rescue expedition with officers using flat-bottomed boats to rescue the child's frozen embryo from a sweltering hospital in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The couples' relief at learning the embryos were safe was far more than just knowing they wouldn't have to pay another $12,000 for a second round of in-vitro fertilization.
"We see our little boy — we see what the potential of those little embryos is, It meant more to us than a few cells frozen in a hospital." Full Story Here