Well, I did try to leave any kind of bias aside, so my apologies if I didn't succeed. I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but > it is not an independent entity

Well, I did try to leave any kind of bias aside, so my apologies if I didn't succeed. I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but > it is not an independent entity This really is debatable, depending on the term "entity". Given that this is in-vitro fertilization, an embryo here is likely a couple dozen cells grown from two gametes, in a test tube. It is physically distinct from the parents. My remark was going in the same direction as yours. What "schocked" me is that some parts of the linked article read as though the author forced an ideology/views upon the reader. I was expecting to get raw facts from this article, so that surprised me a bit. Regardless of what I think of the author's viewpoint (which I didn't state, by the way), I expressed having trouble logically following the arguments that are being used there, and suspected that it might be due to a logical fallacy the author could have been leaning on to close the reasoning gaps (and if that was the case, I was curious to know which). But I admit it could also be an issue on my side.