The truth: Every embryo is a potential human being. Yet at least 50% of them, probably much more, depending on the age of the woman who produced the egg, are incompatible with growth beyond the 12th week of pregnancy. Most of that 50% who would not make it, don’t even make the implantation. Some make it a couple weeks, and a very few make it to 11 or 12 weeks.
We are talking about aneuploidy here, chromosomal abnormalities that will not allow growth to fetus stage. (We are not talking about other problems that would leave to viable kids but with disorders.) Many, many embryos are aneuploid to the point of never making it, even some that are formed by a young couple in their 20s. It is 95% due to the egg and not the sperm, because sperm “naturally select.” The bad ones don’t get to the egg.
But we do not know (without special testing that has only come into being commercially in 2008) which embryos are going to be viable. That’s the key. Each embryo MIGHT grow to be an 80-year-old one day.
Embryos that will not survive are irrelevant to the abortion debate because they will abort themselves.
And each 2-year-old might grow to be an 80-year-old one day (actually, after 78 years of days), or might die tomorrow. I think the presumption ought to be in favor of letting both embryos and 2-year-old live as long as they're naturally going to, however long that is.
No. Every embryo is a unique human being dependent on his or her mother for life. The rest is up to God, no matter the age of the mother. That doesn't matter, no matter what the secular world wants us to think.
The truth: Every embryo is a human being with potential.