# What should be done with unwanted frozen embryos?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-with-unwanted-frozen-embryos/484273>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 3, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-with-unwanted-frozen-embryos/484273 "2009-02-03T17:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-with-unwanted-frozen-embryos/484273/41 "2009-02-08T20:23:40Z")

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The answer is obvious, we should turn them into a crack force of elite fighter pilots: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI7jrnvVMak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI7jrnvVMak)

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**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-with-unwanted-frozen-embryos/484273/42 "2009-02-09T12:32:13Z")

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> [@suranyi](#):
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> Steven Pinker, the MIT linguist, makes an interesting point in one of his books. He says our brains are hard-wired to recognize the difference between live things and not-alive things at a very deep level, so we have a very hard time imagining that there could be something in a third category.
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> Hence the fight over “when does life begin?” – at conception, or when brain impulses start, or at birth – depending mostly on your politics.
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> When actually, he says, an embryo/fetus is partially alive and partially not-alive, gradually becoming more and more alive and less and less not-alive until the moment of birth.
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> Ed

I fail to understand the argument of when life began,Life is a passed on thing,it goes back eons ago, and if one believes in Genesis it began thousands of years ago. The same life that is in a man’s sperm is also human life so each ejaculation means many human lifes are lost even if there is a conception.

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