A Family Court judge in Michigan late last month refused a mother’s request for custody of five to ten frozen embryos on ice at an in-vitro fertilization facility. The embryos were produced through in vitro, or outside the body, fertilization in 2015 and then frozen. The mother, Gloria Karungi, and her former boyfriend, Ronald Ejalu, agreed to produce the embryos two years after they broke up. The decision was the first step of a plan to eventually implant the embryos in Gloria’s womb in order for her to bear a child. During their short relationship, Karungi and Ejalu brought forth, by natural means, a now eleven-year-old daughter, who has been diagnosed with sickle cell disease, a serious blood disorder. The parents, though separated, wanted to possibly use stem cells from the newborn’s umbilical cord as a potential cure for their sick child. Ejalu has since married and has two children …