I feel like the real headline is "One third of Americans think frozen embryos are people for some reason."

A zygote isn't "alive" either. No sustainable or complex nervous system is in place until approximately six months of gestation.

This is religious bullshit. Pure and simple.

And while we're at it, neither should corporations.

Another logical inconsistency I'd love a reporter to actually press a politician on. Republicans believe "life begins as conception" and have signed onto fetal personhood amendments. Fine. But if you believe that life begins at conception, when sperm meets egg, then you must believe that you sky daddy creates a new life at that exact moment.

The logical conclusion of this position is exactly what the Alabama supreme court decided. If you believe that life begins (i.e., god created a new sacred human life) the moment that little spermy wiggles into the egg, then what does it matter where that happens, in utero or in a petri dish? The cells still divide and grow the same way in either case. So, if that's your belief, and you force that belief on everyone through laws, then of course it's "murder" to destroy an embryo.

What's fucked is Republicans realize the practical effect of carrying that logic through is an effective ban on all IVF, or at best a major reatriction on how it's done (one fertilization at a time, instead of fertilizing a bunch and implanting the most viable candidates), and that's unpopular as shit. So now their trying to back track with dumbass stances like it doesn't count if it's not in the womb. BULLSHIT. Don't let them off with that shit. It's either the sperm goes in and the magical old man gives it a kiss and now it's a baby, or not, it doesn't matter where it happens. If Republicans try to wiggle around that, journalists need to press them and get them to specifically answer when exactly is it that the fairy dust turns these cells into a person, and why doesn't the fairy dust work outside the womb, and does the fairy dust start working the moment it goes into the womb, or what?! Republicans want to impose their dumb shit religious beliefs on all of us, they should at least be able to (and should be forced to) explain them in detail.

It's absolutely mind boggling that one-third apparently do think a frozen embryo is a person.

A third of the population think that there's no difference between them and a frozen single cell

And in a 18 months that number will be 60%, then 55%, then 51%, etc...

This is how ultracon BS spreads. Like mold.

That is not enough thirds.

The crazy thing is nothing is preventing the 1/3 of people who think embryos are children from treating their frozen embryos as children.

Its only 6-10 cells in a clump that are frozen. It doesnt move feel or think. Embryo's are potential humans but also non-entities

Too bad US is a republic, not a democracy. The founding fathers never intended it. Right guys? /s

If you want to define frozen embryos as people, then I should be able to claim them as dependents on my tax returns after setting up the necessary cryonics.
After all, aren't they... dependent on me maintaining said cryonics to keep them alive in stasis?

Debates I can't believe we're having in 2024...

Almost a head-popper the day we debated about abortion rights...

I swear to god, theological debates about how many angels dance on a pinhead make more sense. Quickening as being more than a clump of cells made more sense and those motherfuckers came up with that nonsense when they didn't even have a microscope.

So if embryos are considered people then: Would inseminate be act of assault? Would be inserted into a female without embryo consent be sexual assault?