Medical Issues: Is It Permissible to Preserve Fertilised Eggs for Future Implantation?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Medical Issues: Is It Permissible to Preserve Fertilised Eggs for Future Implantation?

English:

Question #1270:

Nowadays it is possible to keep the ova that have been fertilised in vitro alive by certain procedures to be implanted later inside the womb of the woman who possesses the ova when necessary. Is it permissible?

Answer #1270:

There is no harm in it in itself.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Medical Issues