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I've often wondered why pro-choice advocates don't ask anti-choice people why they don't picket daily outside fertility clinics, which routinely discard embryos. The answer, I think, is that it would be politically unpopular and also expose the ludicrousness of their position.
Regarding the other hot-button embryo issue, stem cell research, ask them, along the same lines, why they have no problem with those embryos being tossed in the garbage but they strenuously object to them being used for research.
And why aren't miscarried fetuses routinely given full church rites and then buried? In some cases they are, but this is by no means the norm.
It would be so easy to go on the offensive, and trip these people up on their inconsistencies, instead of being constantly on the defensive.
