REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Alabama Supreme Court rules 8-1 that all un-implanted embryos are legal children. Meaning that every fertilized egg in an invitro-fertilization procedure has standing as a born human baby.This essentially bans fertility clinics.

Further, this phrase: “The 8-1 ruling applies The Wrongful Death of a Child Act to all unborn children, regardless of their location.” Suggesting lawmakers there intend to prosecute Alabama residents for procedures done over state lines, outside AL jurisdiction, as they are already threatening to do with abortion care.

I should also note, this threatens to criminalize certain contraceptives, such as IUDs, hormonal birth control, and Plan B medications. Because all of them may expel a fertilized egg.

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Next up on the docket - every sperm is sacred. My balls are a housing development and any woman who causes me to ejaculate better have accommodations for all 400 million of them per ejaculation.

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      One of the reasons religious people have had a problem with IVF is that the man must ejaculate into a tube, this breaking G*d’s law.

      I wish I were kidding.

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        9 months ago

        Man the more I hear about that God guy, the more I think he must be a real bureaucratic bastard with all his nonsense rules

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        9 months ago

        I’ve ejaculated into so many things less Holy than a test tube it would make a Catholic priest blush.

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          9 months ago

          Reminds me of an old, old joke.

          Back in the day, a young man is brought before the University officials on the charge of having sex with a prostitute.

          The young fellow defends himself by saying that because he was wearing a condom.

          “What is this condom thing made out of, young man?”

          “It is made from the intestines of a sheep. So technically I did not have sex with the woman.”

          “That is too bad for you. The penalty of having sex with a prostitute is five lashes, but the penalty for having sex with a dead animal is five hundred lashes.”

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    9 months ago

    The proof that they’re children is that you can store them in a freezer for decades, just like fully developed people.

    edit: wait, where am I?

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    9 months ago

    Step 1: have 10-12 embryos in a freezer in Alabama

    Step 2: file for childcare tax rebates

    Step 3: ???

    Step 4: Profits for you and your cousin

    • AnaisRim@lemmynsfw.comOPM
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      9 months ago

      I think underneath it all is a desire for nonconsensual sexual domination. And all the religious and political ideology nonsense really just exists to obscure this underlying motive.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah I think you’re right. Not much else explains the need to control every aspect of a woman’s life 🙍

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    9 months ago

    Thank you for putting general sex related legislative news here, even though it’s kinda off topic. Hate and sex negativity harms us all. I will never understand the mindset that thinks guns are ok but consensual sex isn’t. That killing people gets a movie a PG rating but sex an X. Twisted.

    • AnaisRim@lemmynsfw.comOPM
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      9 months ago

      Hey, thank you back! The entire mod team here thanks you. We’re really trying our best to improve things here.

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    9 months ago

    Then the owners of such embryos can get them social security numbers and claim them on taxes. Right?