MSNBC medical contributor and former Obama White House policy director Kavita Patel joined Jose Diaz-Balart Reports guest host Yasmin Vossoughian on Tuesday to react to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declares frozen embryos to be people. Patel was not happy, unknowingly arguing that embryos are not people because they are embryos but also enable people to become parents.
The tautological Patel claimed, “So, I do think that you’re raising a good issue in how we think about, kind of, the future of embryos, but, by the way, that’s not a new conversation and that’s one that should not get confused with what’s at issue here. They are defining an extra-uterine embryo as a living creature and that’s just simply not the fact. They’re embryos.
A declaration that an embryo is an embryo is the kind of expert analysis one comes to expect from…
