Who is a person?
Debates from anti abortionist and pro choice factions seem to mostly stem from deciding when a person is a person. Yesterday I saw an article/video about a couple who "adopted" left over embryos from IVF. By adopted I mean they were given permission to implant these embryos and deliver a baby. The embryos had been frozen for 15 years prior.
I saw that they took the fact that they gave birth to live babies as confirmation that life and peopleness began at conception. I didn't take it that way because well how many post birth people have we ever heard of who have been successfully frozen and reanimated after 15 years? The fact that it can be done with embryos and not anyone outside the womb indicates to me that embryos are something but not what I would call people. I tend to think of them as potential people.
Of course this story had other elements that made me question the motives of the folks involved but that's another post for another day.
I saw that they took the fact that they gave birth to live babies as confirmation that life and peopleness began at conception. I didn't take it that way because well how many post birth people have we ever heard of who have been successfully frozen and reanimated after 15 years? The fact that it can be done with embryos and not anyone outside the womb indicates to me that embryos are something but not what I would call people. I tend to think of them as potential people.
Of course this story had other elements that made me question the motives of the folks involved but that's another post for another day.
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