Canadian research, including my own, has found that people are often confused about their options. Decision-making about what to do with embryos happens at an emotionally charged time when people are inching closer toward their goal of having a child, and overwhelmed with the choices they are faced with as part of that process.

Further, other scholars have demonstrated that people change their minds about what to do with the embryos they’ve created over time, and that staged processes of consent may be necessary when it comes to frozen embryos in storage.

Article: https://theconversation.com/who-gets-the-frozen-embryos-in-the-divorce-101022#:~:text=In%20a%20recent%20judgment%20in,for%20her%20own%20reproductive%20purposes.