Do you agree that calling an embryo a human being is like calling an acorn an oak tree?

[Anonymous]

[MisterWack]

Mainly I don’t care what people think or feel.

The fact of the matter is, a woman’s choice is her own which can be influenced by how much money she has in the bank, how her mental well being is, whether or not she met the right guy to be ready for the big responsibilities, whether ‘it’ came from rape or SA or incest or consensual protected sex that went wrong… Point is, a woman’s choice is her own.
I don’t play “acorn” or “oak tree” or whatever you people want to play around with… A woman’s choice is her own.

[AviatorTom]

That's a decent analogy. An acorn is a potential oak tree, once it pokes through the soil and becomes a little tree, and an embryo or fetus is a potential human, once it achieves viability outside the womb and becomes a child.

[andreasderjuengere]

I see it as a potential human.

About one year after ''birth'' they will be filled up with some kind of personality.

Not knowing what that will be like, I am willing to give them a chance to become like ''us''.

Which does not mean that I will go chicken farm each time I see a toddler... it's the opposite, rather.

And it's DEFINITELY! not! a view that I will imprint on others!

Humans are individual - not... typical, or even stereotypical.

[meepmeeperton]

No, I don't think that's right. I am relatively pro-choice but I do believe in some restrictions on abortion access. However, I dislike these arguments that try to strip the obvious element of humanity from a human embryo or even fetus. An embryo is a stage of development for a human being.

I don't believe that terminating pregnancies is 100% morally wrong in all circumstances, but I do believe that it is a sensitive subject that involves the termination of life or potential life.

[docster]

I disagree. An acorn would equate to an unfertilized egg in a woman. an embryo would be like a sapling.

[DarkLegacy]

Here comes a feminist abortion advocate. We should only allow abortion in limited circumstances.

[ProbablyClueless]

No, I don't agree. I'm not very educated on biology, but my understanding is that an acorn and an embryo aren't quite analogous steps in each organism's reproductive cycles.

[gorydetails]

Will an acorn grow into a cat? What about a rose bush?

[andreasderjuengere]

That would be a ''trans oak'', then :D

[LazerBean]

No, because that would mean I'm stupid.

[Anonymous]

well.