Is a pre-embryo a human being?

A Chicago judge has ruled that a husband and wife will be allowed to proceed with a wrongful death suit against a fertility clinic that allegedly inadvertently discarded their fertilized egg.


"Really you are talking about the age of these things in hours -- maybe 24 or 36 hours old," Worek said. "Chances are it would still be in the fallopian tube at that stage." Therefore, he added, considering it a human being could present a legal challenge to some contraception, like IUDs, and abortion. "It all becomes very strange."

WTF?

Just dreamed that I was wathching furniture get crushed by a giant quadripedal bronosaurus like crane/building/wrecking machine while sitting on the side of the road with Lawrence Fishburne in Singapore. The furniture came from debris on the top of an old freight elevator that was blocking the elevator from moving. It was a wierd spraqling dream full of vistas of a modernizing Singapore that combined elements that never were with strange gear-punk sci-fi technology.

So why Lawrence Fishburne doing in my dream?

Anyhow, this taurine shit is interesting for the dreams it gives me, if nothing else.