News Flash: Human embryos are not human!

According to David Holcberg and Alex Epstein of the Ayn Rand Institute, human embryos are not human beings.  From the American Chronicle:

But embryos used in embryonic stem cell research are manifestly not human beings--not in any rational sense of the term. These embryos are smaller than a grain of sand, and consist of at most a few hundred undifferentiated cells. They have no body or body parts. They do not see, hear, feel, or think. While they have the potential to become human beings--if implanted in a woman's uterus and brought to term--they are nowhere near actual human beings.

So let me get this straight: human embryos are not "human" even though they have all 46 human chromosomes and they are not "beings" even though they exist and are alive.   Well, I am glad they cleared that up.  I guess it is time to rewrite every human embryology book ever written.  There is more:

What, then, is the "pro-lifers"' reason for regarding these collections of cells as sacred and attributing rights to them? Religious dogma.

I guess it is also time to expose the scientific community as religious dogmatics because they make the distinction between "cells" which are subunits of an organisms and complete organisms.  How dare scientists confuse the public by classifying a human embryo as a complete human organism instead of just a "collection of cells."  The Pope must have forced them to do it:

The opponents of embryonic stem cell research claim that their position is rooted in "respect for human life." They say that the embryos destroyed in the process of extracting stem cells are human beings with a right to life. In Pope Benedict's recent words: "The loving eyes of God look on the human being, considered full and complete at its beginning."

When I read Atlas Shrugged, I got that it was wrong to expect another human to sacrifice to make your life better.  I thought Ayn Rand was against forcing anyone to surrender anything for the "good of society".  I think the Ayn Rand Institute needs some of their own professed rationalism to see they are dead wrong on the issue of embryo destructive research.