You know your argument has devolved to ridiculous levels when this is one of the opponents says something like this:
"In recent weeks, backers and opponents have discussed when life starts and what death means. A priest testified that embryonic cells are clearly human because people find it gross to consider eating them 'as a kind of human caviar.'"
WHA? How in the world could that be an argument? I hardly think that people finding something gross to eat constitutes something's humanity... Personally I would have a problem eating stem cells from the following sources: horses, chimpanzees, narwhales, venus flytraps, koala bears, lemurs, asps, and... well, now that I think about it, pretty much anything. I guess according to that priest, EVERYTHING is human, because I can't imagine anyone ordering stem cell stew of ANYTHING off a menu... and we live in a world where people will even eat BIRD'S NESTS! Well, in the priest's defense, I will admit we DO eat embryonic chicken cells (except for my grandmother, who HATES eggs with a fiery passion), but only because they're so tasty in a nice omelet.
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Perhaps the priest's distinction is between gross things uncooked (e.g. caviar) versus gross thinks cooked (e.g. eggs in an omelet, stem cells in a stew, etc).
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