Embryonic Rights

It's time for new language and a new strategy in the fight for life.  We've danced with our Pro-Choice partner so long the fight has fallen into a soporific waltz and both partners risk falling off a cliff into nothingness. It is time to pay attention to the most dramatic player on the scene--the embryo itself.  It's only defense is its mother, and even that is limited if that mother is in China.  Embryonic stem cell research is hailed from so many quarters without any secondary echo of concern for the costs such possible cures may require.
I'm Pro-Life for a lot of reasons, but the biggest one is human nature.  I don't trust us with the right to treat any human being as expendable.   Throughout history any attempt to draw a line and say that this is not a human being ends in in abuse, and the line itself keeps moving.  If we're blessed it moves to a more generous position, if not, more and more human beings will find themselves oppressed/at risk of death.  By saying the second that slippery little sperm slides in, that baby is a human and worthy of human rights, we draw the line as wide as it can possibly be drawn, at the short end at least.  We draw the largest circle of safety around ourselves.
For these reasons I call for a new language that emphasizes human rights and seeks to reestablish the base line of humanity.