The Alabama court's recent ruling raised concerns among doctors and patients that classifying embryos as children could restrict in-vitro fertilization.
Five years from now, red states will have laws that say every woman's menstrual tissue must be collected for analysis in case the egg was fertilized without implanting. If this happens, she will be charged with murder.
Oh, and women will still need to buy their own menstrual products and pay sales tax on them.
The only people who are stupider are undecided or non-voters.
God, tell me about it. I've seen so many reactionary takes with what's going on in Gaza and the US support for it, insisting they're staying home over it, when if they thought out the problem for like 5 seconds more, they'd realize what absolute children they're being.
Not only is not voting going to result in America taking a MORE extreme stance on Gaza, but it also invites endless suffering from this and other extremist positions, that will hurt us, our families, and our loved ones. Real fucking strategery there guys. I really hope I'll have it in me to rub their faces in the inevitable consequences, but realistically I'll be too much of a shell to care after seeing everyone I love suffer.
This works in their favor as these pieces of shit also love the prison slavery labor system we implement to feed major corporations with slave free labor.
The more ridiculous felonies they can pin on people the more slaves cheap labor they provide.
The cheek cells in spit have a full set of chromosomes and given the right conditions could be turned into a growing embryo. Guess that means dentists are mass murderers now, all those little potential lives going down that suction tube of death.
"Fertilization" is a continuum, not a moment in time. I know everyone thinks of that magic moment when the one sperm breaks through the outer membrane, from the video we all watched in 7th grade. But that "moment" could be anytime during a span of days, and there are a hundred "moments" before and after that determine whether the egg will be viable and attach to the uterine wall. And then there are a thousand more moments that determine if the uterus is hospitable and the mother capable of supporting a pregnancy to term. And then there are a million more moments between when the pregnancy begins and the baby is born and separated from the mother. Until that point, objectively, it is not yet an independent person.
It's not just shifting goalposts. Fertilization is a line in the sand under water. Theoretically, you could say it exists, but you're going to have to redraw the line every time you try to find it, and it's gone pretty much as soon as you look away.
Anyone who chooses to die on that hill is a religious fruitcake, devoid of value as a thinking human.
everything is a fucking baby nowadays. quick hypothetical: you're in a burning building, in that building is a single two year old, and a cooler with 10,000 fertilized embryos in it. You can only grab one. Do you rescue the two year old, or 10,000 "babies"? If one embryo = one child then it's pretty obvious what the right decision is, right?
Republicans in a race to the bottom to figure out who can say the stupidest thing possible. Between this and Jewish space lasers, I think the competition is heating up.
In a way it is a race to the "bottom" they're pushing the definition of life to be the earliest point possible to make abortion absolutely impossible at any point.
Just remember: It'S a StAtEs RiGhTs IsSuE!! (Until they want more, then they lie about that too.)
To recognize embryos as life would you not have to recognize sperm as life as well? Meaning that we have to recognize millions of deaths per ejaculation. How then can we say 100,000,000 lives killed is okay, but the embryo which I would argue is like a seed without sun/water/soil.
Why is Nikki Haley starting a war on Christianity? Does she hate Jesus? Does she think she knows more than God? She is oppressing good religious people who follow the bible which says life begins at first breath. She will burn in hell.
I can't believe they're allowing people to freeze their babies, leaving them alone in freezers with strangers for only god knows how long. I'm worried that some sick democrat might sneak in and give them a free lunch!
Embryos can be whatever you want to you, miss Haley, but the rest of us live in reality. I can say that embryos are, to me, 8 story crustaceans from the paleolithic era. Doesn't necessarily make 'em so.
Well it was about this time that I noticed the embryo was actually an 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the Protozoic era. It was the Loch Ness monster! I said "Damn it Monster, get off my lawn! I ain't given you no Tree Fiddy."
Also, if an embryo isn't born yet, and citizenship is conferred at birth, are they even a citizen? Shouldn't the Republicans be up in arms about all these protectons for non-citizens?
You joke, but it sounds like IVF clinics are all but closing down in Alabama because of this ruling. The IVF parents who sued because they accidentally lost embryos have made it so no one can use IVF in the state at all.
I wonder if Haley is vegan. She seems willing to expand the definition of what is a life and what is sacred. Which is more alive, an adult cow or a single cell human embryo? Are either acceptable to eat? Why or why not?
Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization are “babies,” siding with a recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that raised concerns among doctors and patients about the future of the procedure.
Later on Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it was pausing IVF treatments in response to the state Supreme Court ruling.
Asked if legislation and rulings like the one in Alabama could have a chilling effect on families using IVF to become parents, Haley said, “This is one where we need to be incredibly respectful and sensitive about it."
She has repeatedly calling for national "consensus" on abortion in debates instead of the bans and restrictions favored by some of her primary opponents.
As Haley presses her increasingly long-shot bid for the White House against former President Donald Trump, she has warned that ongoing legal proceedings could hamper his electability.
Asked if she could vote for him if he were the nominee and he was convicted of a felony, Haley dodged, saying “those are hypotheticals” and questioning whether Trump would even stay in the 2024 presidential race at that point.
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