re: #501 Danny

This is true (the “crap” part, not the hallucinating part). In fact, “viable embryo” is really an oxymoron. Only fetuses can become viable.

My bad for poor word choice with “viable” — I meant it in the more general sense of “thriving in its current environment” or “likely to survive if not interfered with” or simply “healthy,” but Charles and Danny are correct that when the context is pregnancy, “viable” does refer to survival outside the uterus.

So, to restate: let’s not speak of a healthy human embryo as though it were a wart — i.e., a benign tumor with no potential to do anything but grow into a larger wart, or possibly turn malignant.