{"id":63394,"date":"2015-05-06T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=63394"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:23:19","slug":"sofia-vergaras-ex-killing-these-embryos-is-no-different-than-killing-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sofia-vergaras-ex-killing-these-embryos-is-no-different-than-killing-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Sofia Vergara&#8217;s ex: &#8216;Killing these embryos is no different than killing a life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Should a separated couple\u2019s frozen embryos be allowed to survive?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern Family\u201d actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fianc\u00e9\u00a0Nick Loeb have two frozen embryos created from when they were still in a relationship and were pursuing in-vitro fertilization. At the time, the couple, who planned to use a surrogate to carry the children to term, reportedly agreed the embryos would be destroyed if one or both of them died.<\/p>\n<p>But now Loeb is fighting to keep the embryos alive.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=30359274\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\">ABC Breaking US News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\/video\">US News Videos<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"InArticleEmailForm\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>According to ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d a friend of Loeb\u2019s says that Loeb is \u201cpro-life\u201d and believes that \u201ckilling these embryos is no different than killing a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Loeb\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, embryos aren\u2019t nearly as cute as babies. Nor nearly as big: According to a University of Michigan publication, \u201cat 21-days-old, a human embryo is less than two millimeters long or roughly the size of the circle at the end of this sentence.\u201d In IVF situations, embryos are typically up to 7 days old when they are frozen.<\/p>\n<p>But embryos are still human beings.<\/p>\n<p>These embryos already have their own unique DNA: half Vergara\u2019s and half Loeb\u2019s. They are living, and capable of growth. They contain within their very very tiny selves all the components necessary to grow into a baby, a toddler, a teen, an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they need the right resources to grow, like a womb. But all of us need the right resources to continue living. If someone died of starvation, we wouldn\u2019t say they stopped being human; we\u2019d say they\u2019d been deprived of an essential ingredient to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, before fertilization, when it\u2019s a separated egg and sperm, neither component can grow into a whole human being.<\/p>\n<p>If Vergara and Loeb had had a 1-year-old when they split, there\u2019d be no talk like this. Yet the frozen embryos are as equally human as any 1-year-old. No, you can\u2019t make eye contact with them or recall rocking them on nights they wouldn\u2019t sleep or remember how hard they kicked in your womb that one time you tried a new food they didn\u2019t care for.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t know how they looked in those baby-sized sneakers or how their excitement the first time they were able to grab a noisy rattle made their eyes wide and huge. They\u2019re still little mysteries, unknown and hard to see.<\/p>\n<p>But so were we all once.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t value people based on their qualities. We don\u2019t value people based on their size, or their abilities.<\/p>\n<p>We value them because they <i>are<\/i>, because they\u2019re human beings.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n<p>These embryos are human. And they shouldn\u2019t lose the chance to work in business\u00a0like Dad or get all of America laughing like Mom just because they had the misfortune to have their parents split up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Katrina Trinko is managing editor of The Daily Signal and a member of USA Today&#8217;s Board of Contributors. This article <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2015\/04\/16\/do-sofia-vergaras-embryos-have-a-right-to-life\/\">originally appeared at\u00a0the Daily Signal,<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should a separated couple\u2019s frozen embryos be allowed to survive? \u201cModern Family\u201d actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fianc\u00e9\u00a0Nick Loeb have two frozen embryos created from when they were still in a relationship and were pursuing in-vitro fertilization. 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