A question for the "life begins at conception" folks: if a couple attempting in vitro

[Atticus]

fertilization stores, say, six fertilized eggs, can they claim all of the frozen blastospheres as dependents on their tax returns?

If so, is there a time limit or just as long as they remain properly frozen?

[mucifer]

1. Not to mention every sperm is sacred:

[delisen]

2. Like this IRS puzzler. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Someone should try it and find out.

[central scrutinizer]

4. Too bad I got a vasectomy

Otherwise there’d be a shit load of standard exemptions in this Kleenex

[Cicada]

5. Bacteria are life. Minimizing suffering trumps maximizing life.

Mosquitos are life. If life begins at conception so what? I do not think people should suffer greatly to preserve the life of a mosquito. Just because life begins at conception does not justify a ban on abortion. An early stage fetus has zero capacity to feel or know so it’s survival does not justify making a person suffer. We need to minimize suffering, not maximize life.

[brewens]

6. Consider RW women that used birth control that prevents implantation of a fertilized egg. They

presumably had numerous abortions and should STFU about it from here on out. If they get that conception crap passed.

[usonian]

7. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, PLEASE

Why are children ONE YEAR OLD after ONE YEAR breathing?

Case closed.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

8. Cancer Cells Are LIVING Cells

Someone please ban all "pro-lifers" from getting cancer treatments, please. A tumor is every bit as much a "person" as a clump of cells after 6 weeks.

I'm also baffled about these "heartbeat" bills. That pulsating sound you hear on ultrasound is NOT a heartbeat. I'd love to hear a "pro-lifer" explain to me how a clump of cells that has not yet developed a HEART can have a heartbeat.