# If life begins at conception, then ... (frozen embryo question)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-begins-at-conception-then-frozen-embryo-question/275585 "2004-11-19T00:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-begins-at-conception-then-frozen-embryo-question/275585/21 "2004-11-20T17:07:05Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> [regression therapy]  
> “It was dark… and cold… and there were… tater tots…”  
> [/regression therapy]

"It was dark…and cold…and Ted Williams was staring at me…

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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-begins-at-conception-then-frozen-embryo-question/275585/22 "2004-11-20T20:24:06Z")

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> [@AskNott](#):
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> Just yesterday, I was talking with an old friend about embryos and souls. He’s a Catholic and a grandfather. He had some ideas I hadn’t heard before. Like many Catholics, he approves of birth control. He’s strongly against abortion, though. He says, “When God puts in a soul, and he gets it back before the child is born, he’s liable to doubt himself, and you don’t want that to happen.” On the question of the morning-after pill, he’s for it, for a surprising reason. “I figure there’s no soul aboard until about the fifth day after conception.” I asked him why five days. “Well, God’s got a lotta souls to keep track of. He could lose track of a soul for four or five days, or He could get behind.”
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> I’m not a Catholic, and I don’t pretend to understand its details. However, something tells me that’s not the standard, brass-bound Vatican policy. :dubious: I don’t agree with him, either. I present it to you simply because I thought you’d find it interesting.

If the god of the Catholics existed, wouldn’t this be automatic?

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