From WABE Politics News:
A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments as healthcare providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of […]
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What happens if you never use your frozen embryos? Is that murder, or like some sort of purgatory?
Purgatory. They can’t thaw them without a surrogate, and even then, it’s likely that most of them won’t survive. So they’ll have to keep them frozen until we develop technology to guarantee their survival when they’re thawed.
That seems like an impossible position then.
I can understand why they would rule embryos are children (but I strongly disagree), but it seems unreasonable for any judge to turn IVF into lawsuits and presumably prison sentences hanging under a sword of Damocles of whenever a freezer dies.
It depends on how people understand human life. If there are no room for shades of gray, and an embryo counts as a person, then this result seems perfectly logical and will effectively shut down most reproductive-related healthcare. Because life at this stage is so tenuous, what sane doctor would risk a murder charge?
But I’m guessing this is exactly what those in favor of the ruling want. Until they can’t get the care themselves. Sigh.
So every time a woman gets her period, it’s a miscarriage? Can women be investigated for murder every month?
Not quite, but every miscarriage is now potentially a murder case. Exactly what everyone would want after that kind of trauma. /s
The fun part is that over 50% of fertilizations result in a miscarriage, either due to a failure to implant or because of another pregnancy related event, all due to natural causes. So if a fertilized egg equals a person, they might want to have a talk with that god fella, who engineered it that way on purpose.