Meet Noah Markham and his mother Rebekah. Two weeks after hurricane Katrina hit, 1400 embryos were rescued from a flooded New Orleans hospital. Noah was one of those embryos. Noah is, was, and always will be a human being. Nothing was done to that embryo to magically make it become a human being. The same embryo that was rescued from that New Orleans hospital was implanted into Rebekah’s womb, grew to full term and was finally born a healthy baby boy. He’s no more human now than he was over nine months ago in a petri dish.

Ironically, Baby Noah was born just 6 days after the U.S. House voted to expand funding for research on other embryos just like Noah and the 1399 other embryos rescued in LA. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer defended the bill, stating that it would only authorize funding for research on “embryos that would otherwise be discarded by fertility clinics” and that, instead of destroying life, this legislation would provide the scientific communitywith the “tools it needs to save lives.” I’m sure baby Noah would disagree.