Embryos

It’s chilling to see, as described in “Fertile Terrain” (July 17), human beings at the embryonic stage of life being cultivated like so many plants in a vegetable garden, with the “weaker” embryos being weeded out and discarded in a doctor-controlled experiment of survival of the fittest.

As is customary in reports on fertility treatments involving donated eggs, the article overlooks the critical fact that a child conceived through a husband’s sperm and donated eggs is not the child of that husband and his wife but the child of that husband and the woman from whom the egg comes.

ROBERT RAKAUSKAS

Encino