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While we're examining the absurd: "Also, theologically, we are having a problem here," says ethicist Sass. "If these [zygotes] are really images of God and our brothers and sisters, as noted theologian Karl Rahner remarked, does the church really want to teach that sixty percent of all of us will fly around [in heaven] in a two- or four-cell stage?" ¹⁶

And from Grobstein, most succinctly: "Extending full personhood to an individual cell that is barely visible makes no more sense than declaring acorns to be oak trees and selling them at oak tree prices." ¹³

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