My Blastocyst Poem

I think what is ignored in all the discussion about personhood for a blastocyst is the need for the proper culture media to grow and develop to make use of that alleged personhood. Well, I thought I might express it in a simple little poem--which I wrote.

“Home Grown”



by Maurice Bernstein, M.D.





I wish

that blastocyst

in the Petri dish

was my son or daughter.



I know

that blastocyst

can’t grow

without a home called mother.

..Maurice.