never heard it put like this:
“‘Nobody understands more that an embryo is not a child,’ she said, before taking a pause, ‘than the person yearning for that embryo to be a child.’”
When my wife was pregnant the number of times we (and our ObGyn) said something along the lines of "it's not a baby until it's a baby" when worrying about how things were going and looking forward to the next steps…