As a pro choice person from the other side of the ocean, I don’t see why it is crazy to be honest. If by someone’s logic life begins at conception then of course frozen embryos, even if just a couple of days old, are also alive? Like, I don’t see a difference between an embryo in utero and one ex utero that is the same age. Or are they talking about fertilized eggs that have not yet fused nuclei?
Btw I also personally do see that a potential for life does form after conception. If you let things happen, and everything goes according to plan, you end up with a human person. So, in a way, to me, I can see a blastocyst having some philosophical personhood. I just absolutely fail to see how this is relevant when it comes to the question whether abortions or the destruction of frozen embryos should be legal or not. (They absolutely should be.)
As a pro choice person from the other side of the ocean, I don’t see why it is crazy to be honest. If by someone’s logic life begins at conception then of course frozen embryos, even if just a couple of days old, are also alive? Like, I don’t see a difference between an embryo in utero and one ex utero that is the same age. Or are they talking about fertilized eggs that have not yet fused nuclei?
Btw I also personally do see that a potential for life does form after conception. If you let things happen, and everything goes according to plan, you end up with a human person. So, in a way, to me, I can see a blastocyst having some philosophical personhood. I just absolutely fail to see how this is relevant when it comes to the question whether abortions or the destruction of frozen embryos should be legal or not. (They absolutely should be.)