Declaring Embryos ‘People’ Devalues Human Life

Though “pro-lifers” think the opposite

Isolated embryos and corresponding derived human embryonic stem cells (hESC) clinical-grade lines MUCG01–03

In my quest to understand how the opposition thinks, I’ve been reading the comments of “pro-lifers” on social media in the wake of Alabama’s Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos are “children.”

So, I’ve been trying to understand how someone comes to invest so much emotion into something that is objectively not a human being.

Alabama ruled frozen embryos are children. Here’s what it could mean for embryos frozen across the…

Obviously, many people’s notion that embryo = child is influenced by religion, but I’ve discovered there’s another motivation. Some people are morally offended that with in-vitro fertilization, the extra embryos created that aren’t transferred into uteruses are often experimented on or thrown away. In their minds, this is literally treating human life like trash.

Fair enough. The problem, though, is “natural” conception also treats human life like trash.

It is a fact that at least 60% of fertilized human eggs either never implant, or self-abort. This means any couple trying to have a baby is creating embryos that…