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symbiosis involves both parties biologically benefitting, as in both parties being able to SURVIVE because one is hosting the other.

Being pregnant rarely ever saves one's life.

And even if it did, it's a temporary condition. So symbiosis doesn't work.

Why would you need to compare the terms parasite and embryo? A human embryo simply happens to fit the definition of parasite. The two terms are not mutually exclusive, as you set them up in your post.

And there are other definitions of parasitism in which it is NOT mentioned that they are of different species, so what?

Hostility? Ah, so I suppose when I had a chuckle in my OB/GYN's office all those years ago when he told me my fetus was technically a parasite, I was really showing hostility toward the idea of giving birth to her?

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How many people in the world can't handle simple facts without them rocking their whole world? I'm beginning to think more than I thought.

Put this in perspective: it was apparently ONE anonymous random caller on ONE liberal radio show with a small listenership. If it makes you feel any better, tell yourself it was a rightwinger saying that to make us look bad (and how do you know it wasn't?).

Again, this WHOLE thing is such a tempest in a teapot.

And has anyone noticed the original poster has never even bothered to engage in their own thread?