And the controversy surrounding them isn’t going away anytime soon. The concerns they conjure in the American psyche deal with inflammatory issues in our society – issues many have not wanted to consider or worse, admit: when life begins, right-to-life, is an embryo a human being, what rights do embryos have, when does life achieve personhood and rights under the Constitution, bioethics, even eugenics.
Controversy arose after the court issued a decision declaring cryogenically frozen embryos to be “extrauterine children,” human beings with ‘personhood’ – a right to live – to life. …
