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Adoption, not Donation

Exploring Embryo Adoption

By Tracy Doerr

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Doni Brinkman and her husband, Jim, of Phoenix, Ariz., married in 1994 and were very eager to start a family. After a year of trying to conceive, the couple began to seek out the cause of their infertility. In 1997, they were told that they were not likely to conceive a child without medical assistance and were advised to consider IVF or to pursue adoption.

"Devastation could not adequately describe the depth of emotion we experienced," Brinkman says. "Since childhood, my life goal was to be a mother. I remember days of grieving so intensely I felt like I had to remind myself to breathe."

After several failed attempts at starting a family on their own, the Brinkmans turned to adoption, but they were disheartened with the wait time, and Doni still desperately wanted to be pregnant. "Finally, in 1999 we had a glimmer of hope," she says. "Two different friends brought me information on Nightlight Christian Adoptions Snowflake Program. When I read the literature I knew instantly that this would be the perfect opportunity for us. The fact that any children born to us would not be genetically related was never of any consequence to either of us. Families are about choice and commitment, not genes."


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