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.
“...so that no innocent people go to jail for miscarriages...”
NO one could ever go to jail for a miscarriage. The woman who miscarries has NO control whatever for that. Sometimes it can be the result of an infection or a problem with the cervix, etc.
WHY would you think that anyone would be jailed for something out of her control?????
I’m afraid I consider it ‘dehumanizing’ to call an embryo-aged human ‘a potential human being’. Your mileage may vary, but a rational explanation for your beliefs will be assumed until shown otherwise. I just don’t agree that a several hundred cell embryo is not yet a human being.