re: #577 meeshlr

Disclaimer: I’m an anal-retentive scientist.

I agree with your basic point but not the detail.

By day five, the embryo already has at least 100 cells and the number increases exponentially.

Half of abortions are performed by eight weeks (0.5”) and 90% by 12 weeks (~1.5”). So, most abortions are performed when the embryo is no where near to being viable. Absolutely not viable by any stretch of the definition.

I know — when I say “a few cells” I’m talking comparatively to the number of cells in a real viable fetus. I didn’t mean to imply it was only about 10 cells.