Comment Re:a scientific approach in the land of personhood (Score 1) 374
"What the fuck is a pre-embryo."
In the article, they stated that a "pre-embryo" is "an embryo that has not yet been implanted".
Something wrong with that? I think it suffices for the purposes of a magazine article. As long as they define their terms, I find it highly unlikely that they are using linguistic subterfuge to further some weird political agenda.
"If the biomatter belongs to a specific person, then it is their biomatter."
OK, so according to you, the sperm belong to the guy and the eggs to the woman, right?
Well, given the fact that they have no way of removing the man's biomatter from the pre-embryo without destroying the woman's biomatter, can you see why the issue is "hotly contested"?