In the United States, approximately 1.4 percent of the 4.2 million babies born each year are the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF). There are four common forms of artificial reproductive technology (ART), as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but IVF—with or without the use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection—is the most often used by fertility clinics in the U.S., accounting for 99.9 percent of the procedures performed in 2009. The Roman Catholic Church continues to decry the use of ART in general, and IVF in particular, most Christians today do not believe there is anything wrong with IVF, and many Christian denominations support IVF if used within the context of a heterosexual marriage. The silence of the wider Church in general has helped, in part, to creation and storage of over 600,000 cryopreserved embryos in the U.S. with no certain future. The question of what to do with the “leftover” embryos is much debated even today, 34 years after the birth of the first human baby conceived in vitro, with some advocating embryo adoption as the most loving and respectful way of recognizing the personhood of the embryo and others claiming that embryo adoption is the last of a long line of insults incurred upon the personhood of the embryo. This paper presents an introductory look at embryo adoption from a theological and a philosophical perspective. The conclusion drawn is that both perspectives should lead a Christian to avoid IVF in general and embryo adoption in particular.