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Amazing how much different the outcome is when it's a corporation being sued rather than a woman trying to control her own body.
Court Rules Frozen Embryos Are Not People
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)Is there any other possible way to interpret this decision I might be missing?
They are neither people nor chattel but rather a frozen glob of meiotic cells that wouldn't fill a coke spoon.
The issue here is that the courts say that a frozen embryo isn't a person when it's in a vat of liquid nitrogen, but put that embryo in a living, breathing, VOTING woman and suddenly things are different. Apparently corporations have more autonomy than women.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)the hospital was a bailee for hire of the frozen embryos and had a duty of care whether they are people or a collection of cells.
markbark
(1,555 posts)That I agree with.
Thought for a moment we were entering into a "think of the children" line of argument, and cells ain't kids
No worries!
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)sperm funerals.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)tanyev
(42,357 posts)when there are thousands and thousands of 'babies' locked up in freezers in fertility clinics all over this country.
Ohiogal
(31,658 posts)Where our drooling, overzealous misogynist of a governor just signed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the entire country!
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who they want to punish, does it? Makes my blood boil!
malaise
(267,800 posts)Great post
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,918 posts)OT, are you a HellBlazer fan? Funny Ol World Thats Constantines signature line