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GUEST EDITORIAL “Embryo Adoption”: Are We Ready for This New Frontier? In July of 2002, the federal government issued an announcement that it would fund a project that is the first of its kind–a public awareness campaign on embryo adoption (Federal Register, 2002). Who would have thought five years ago that the federal government would have dedicated one million dollars of our taxes to make us aware that em bryos were frozen in laboratories across the country and that as mem- bers of the public, we should “adopt” them? The use of government funds for such an endeavor is, in and of itself, a startling development. But, perhaps even more important is the surprising ease with which adoption–a service that historically has provided existing children with new families–has been transformed into a process through which adults can access desirable and fully formed genetic material for the purpose of procreation. Adoption Quarterly Vol. 6(2) 2002 http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J145  2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1300/J145v06n02_01 1 2 ADOPTION QUARTERLY Child welfare professionals like to believe that adoption is and has been a service for children–when through the efforts of social workers and lawyers, families are found for children