Sofia Vergara's former fiancé Nick Loeb has taken legal action against the actress to gain control of the former couple's frozen embryos.

In an op-ed published on The New York Times headlined "Our Frozen Embryos Have a Right to Live," businessman Loeb raised some controversial issues about parenting and philosophy, going against the "Modern Family" actress' desire to have the embryos frozen in an indefinite amount of time.

"Shouldn't a man who is willing to take on all parental responsibilities be similarly entitled to bring his embryos to term even if the woman objects?" Loeb, 39, wrote in the piece. "In my view, keeping them frozen forever is tantamount to killing them."

Upon getting engaged in 2012, Loeb began to persuade Vergara for children but two initial attempts at surrogacy failed. The former couple parted ways in 2014 after creating two more female frozen embryos via in vitro fertilization at a Beverly Hills fertility clinic a year before that, Washington Post reported.

However, once the embryos were made, "it became clear once more that parenthood was much less urgent for her than it was for me," Loeb explained on The New York Times.

An "ultimatum" was given to the Colombian beauty about having kids, which then led to the pair's breakup, Washington Post noted.

"Many have asked me: Why not just move on and have a family of your own? I have every intention of doing so," Loeb wrote on The New York Times. "But that doesn't mean I should let the two lives I have already created be destroyed or sit in a freezer until the end of time."

Aside from his wish to have children, Loeb also recalled other reasons why he wants to be a father as soon as possible. According to him, the nanny who raised him recently passed away, his father is now reaching old age, and that he was in a terrible car accident in 2010, Washington Post listed. Loeb also added that his parents were mainly absent in his life as he was growing up.

"When I was in my 20s, I had a girlfriend who had an abortion, and the decision was entirely out of my hands," he wrote in the op-ed piece. "Ever since, I have dreamed about a boy at the age he would be now."

According to Fox News, Vergara, 42, and Loeb have both signed a form indicating that the two female embryos would only be carried to term if both parties consented. However, Loeb said that the California law didn't specifically say what would happen to the embryos if the couple responsible for them separated.

Loeb also said that he is willing to carry the costs of storing the embryos and in raising the girls, Washington post noted.

A separate report from The New York Times said embryos can "remain viable for a decade or more if they are frozen properly but not all of them survive when they are thawed."