The Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) on September 21, 2017, published its new Resolution number 2168 (CFM 2017), regarding assisted reproduction procedures. Concerning Cryopreservation of gametes or embryos (item V), it defines that cryopreserved embryos can be discarded after three years or more if this is the expressed will of the patients. Also, for the first time it states that this applies to abandoned embryos, as well. Defines, in a single paragraph, that abandoned embryos are those in which the responsible failed to comply with the pre-established contract and were not located by the clinic that performed the procedure.