misuse of terms

so, i (as well as many other IF'ers) have this pet peeve about misusing ART terms, but in specific the word "implant/ing". it's been used interchangeably and sometimes seems exclusively, with the term "transfer/ing". so it's super annoying to me when i hear it in the media and when doctors themselves use "implanting" when they refer and are talking about "transferring" embryos. if doctors could implant embryos, every single IVF would result in a guaranteed pregnancy. unfortunately, for us that need ART and IVF, it doesn't guarantee a pregnancy. anyway, i think that if we're going to be talking about ART and IVF and have it be out in the media and have "professionals" explain it or comment it, then let's get it right people! educate as you "glamourize" it.

embryos are transferred, not implanted.

so.. even though this has irked me for a long time (i even interrupted and corrected my BFF in the middle of a conversation) i didn't write about it b/c i'd forget or something else would come up. well, today i was in a waiting room and the news was on. i was in and out watching waiting to hear my last name from the radiologist people.. well, they were talking about president obama's signing on the stem cell research and former president clinton was being interviewed. i WISH i would've caught more of the interview, and i should look it up, but all i heard was something to the effect of 'stem cell research would not happen if we could PROVE that these EMBRYOS could be FERTILIZED and become HUMAN BEINGS'.

uhm, hello?!? embryos are just that! it's an egg fertilized by a sperm and divided into multicells. so, an embryo can't be fertilized b/c it's already been fertilized. and well, by MY beliefs, an embryo is already the beginnings of a person. to me it equates a baby that has a chance at life. but that's just me. in science eyes, we don't know if these embryos can become human beings until they implant and result in pregnancy and birth of a 'human being'. that's where the argument comes in. when do you consider life to begin? as i said, i think it's at conception / fertilization. for others, it's when pregnancy reaches a certain week of gestation. but to me, what clinton said didn't make sense to me, b/c i consider them alive already and also, if i didn't, the question would come back to "when do you consider them to become human beings and how would they get to that? and at that point, is stem cell research still an option?"

do i make sense? maybe just to myself. haha.