[tallhappy]

Well, read the definition of an organism.

I have. The first fits an embryo to a tee.

The second one is the one you seem to harp on. You seem to think if a living thing does not have organs it is not an organism. Very strange and actually ludicrous thinking. And completely irrelevant to your argument.

That means that an embryo is either a parasite or that the mother is part of the embryo or the embryo is part of the mother, there is no other possibility.

No.

I have heard this before as well. It reflects a type of logic, but really is absolutely ignorant and contradictory to the most basic tenets of biology.

[MHGinTN]

Bob hasn't reads the essay where the fact of the placenta, constructed by the embryo not the woman's body, is the organ of the embryonic organism used for its survival and which allows for the same definition of 'aliveness' used with comatose or vegetative state human beings such that organs may not be harevsted from them as one from a dead person.

[XBob]

organ - merriam webster 2 a : a differentiated structure (as a heart, kidney, leaf, or stem) consisting of cells and tissues and performing some specific function in an organism b : bodily parts performing a function or cooperating in an activity