An embryo is just the youngest stage of life for a given species. A pig embryo is the youngest form of pig. A horse embryo is the youngest form of horse. A human embryo is just the youngest form of human. One of my law teachers used to talk about the ideological power of categories. Move the baby from “child” to “embryo,” and suddenly you can kill him with impunity. That’s not science. That’s just word games, with murderous consequences.
All cells contain the potential to develop into the organism which it came from.
"One of my law teachers used to talk about the ideological power of categories. Move the baby from child to embryo, and suddenly you can kill him with impunity."
Skin cells can be cloned. How does they fit into the professor's irrational catagory scheme?
"with murderous consequences"
A petri dish full of embryos is not a pool of people and an unwanted embryo is not a person. For an embryo to be called a person, their parents must make that designation. No one else has the right to do so.