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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I have talked to some Americans who claims that sperm + egg = baby and I want to place an egg in front of them and ask them what it is and if they say anything other than a chicken, I will laugh.

Also, thank you for the distinction. Kind of insane to call embryos babies. It is shit like this that makes me feel like my brain is shrinking when I talk to some people online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

They became babies when they were born with experimental modified genomes without their consent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Babies are conceived without their consent.

In case of a C-section, they are born without their consent (implying that they would rather grow up inside the womb :P (look, idk what babies think when they don't come out, but we sure aren't asking them whether they'd rather stay in there))


I would rather be asking if Dr. He had the parent's consent before modding the foetus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago