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Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice ( www.statnews.com )

An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....

peanutbutter_gas ,

An embryo is technically, a fertilized egg. It makes economic sense to fertilize a batch of egg cells in one go because

1: They may not all be successfully fertilized
2: Some fertilized eggs may encounter defects early on in development.

I haven't checked the original article, but I assume fertilized eggs ( embryos) where accidentally destroyed when dropped.

With all that said, I think this whole thing is ridiculous. A baby needs three things to be born. A sperm, an egg, and a uterus (maybe in the future we'll have crazy external uteruses. We've done it with sheep.).

If an embryo is not placed into a uterus, I'm not bothering referring to it as a human. Hell, you can't even identify the sex yet.

peanutbutter_gas ,

For real. The newest two are more in line with the Last of Us where it was story first, action second. The first games of God of War are a buffet of violence being propped up by a story. Don't get me wrong, the story line is good, even now. But it was always button mashing, crazy boss fights, brutal kills first.

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