I’m a 66 years old man. Your ‘correcting me’ is flawed in several ways, not the least of which is the dehumanizing of embryonic aged humans. Tell me, what is the first organ that the newly conceived human makes to sustain his or her life? When you get that right, you will understand how your ‘teaching’ is in error. [Here’s a hint: the morulla-aged human being differentiates two sets of cells, with one set aimed at building the first organ for survival —which organ combines the work for life in a water world, while the other set of cells —that will form the body of an air-world destined baby— will build organs for more differentiated survival work in the air world.]
Oh my, I do come equipped with a holy reverence for human embryos. More than most. When the average person thinks about chromosome differences / problems in an embryo, they think Down Syndrome or such.
Actually, Down Syndrome is an aneuploidy that is very mild indeed, and one that doesn’t stop all growth. Most of those embryos make it to birth. The great majority of aneuploidies or chromosomal problems do not allow the embryo to progress more than a few hours, days, or weeks, and certainly not into the 2nd trimester. It’s not dehumanizing embryos to know the truth about them, that most of them do not make it to human.
Since we lowly servants of Gd know not which are which, we must revere their potential. Period.
But does He provide souls to each embryo? Probably? I am too simple to know. Gd knows which embryos will make it to tomorrow, next week, until the 5th week, and until age 85. I will give The Almighty the benefit of the doubt. But it’s an interesting question.
And perhaps our future laws protecting the unborn will need to use this science somehow, so that no innocent people go to jail for miscarriages. I don’t know.