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The unimplanted blastocysts are frozen and stored (at a continuing monthly expense), or donated for "adoption," (allowable, but rare: most couples prefer to make their own), donated for cure research -- or thrown away.
Don C. Reed: How Not to Have Sex in Colorado: the Personhood Amendment 2010
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But "Personhood" insists every blastocyst -- even the unimplanted ones -- shall be given full rights in a court of law: equal to a fully grown human of any age.
Don C. Reed: How Not to Have Sex in Colorado: the Personhood Amendment 2010
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My understanding is that the prevailing view of scientists is that they do not consider a woman to be pregnant when she has an unimplanted zygote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was Heller comparable to Roe v. Wade? 2009
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Just another low information voter that probably does not know that McPOW "maverick" voted AGAINST equal pay for women, believes that human rights belong to a woman's unimplanted egg and voted with Bush 90% of the time!
As Convention Begins, McCain Ad Features Hillary Supporter For McCain 2009
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Yet they're a fraction of those approximately 400,000 unimplanted specks -- with the feelings, soul and brains of a gnat -- at clinics across the country that the Senate bill would rescue for research.
Margaret Carlson: Bush Snubs Science in Deference to Snowflakes 2008
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You’d think that if god were really pro-life, no zygote would go unimplanted, and no embryo would ever be miscarried.
Think Progress » Popular Teen TV Show To Claim Morning-After Pill Can Cause A Miscarriage 2007
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Opponents of stem cell research seem to believe that fertilized, unimplanted zygotes are worthy of special protection under the law.
Think Progress » Bush Administration Invents New Excuse To Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research 2006
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You and Marshall have a legitimate dispute as to whether an unimplanted but fertilized ovum is a human being deserving equal protection of law.
Del. Marshall Wants Birth Control Debate at cvillenews.com 2003
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Does that mean that if we could detect such unimplanted embryos as they leave the womb, we would have a duty to rescue them and try to implant them anyway?
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Erin, this “what about all the poor unimplanted embryos”? plaint is a fairly tired theme from pro-choicers.
What women who value their reproductive rights have lost 2005
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