A political post

[puzzle_me]

One of the above pictures is a human blastocyst, the other is an amoeba. Can you tell the difference? Do you think our President could?

If you put a baby into cryogenic storage, it will die. If you take a blastocyst out of cryogenic storage, it will die. How can you consider something a human life if it dies when you unfreeze it? While I might not agree with it, I can understand why someone considers a developing fetus a human life, but I cannot understand why someone can consider a blastocyst a human life.

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[olstad.livejournal.com]

I cannot understand why someone can consider a blastocyst a life.
Most people don't take physio or micro or molecular bio or even biochem. It was much easier for me to understand why people are so ill-informed after I taught sex ed to high schoolers (one of whom was pregnant) and they had no idea how a baby was made (they understood the sex part, but not the egg + sperm part). I choose to believe that people are un-educated. :)

Being pregnant and having a baby is also a magical, mystical process and after having been through the experience, my anger towards people who don't get it is somewhat lessened.