States push ‘fetal personhood’ bills despite outrage at Alabama IVF ruling
States push ‘fetal personhood’ bills despite outrage at Alabama IVF ruling
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to endow embryos or fetuses with legal rights and protections since the start of the year, and at least three states have advanced such “fetal personhood” legislation since February, when an Alabama supreme court decision ruling that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children” unleashed national outrage.
The Alabama state legislature responded to the repercussions of that ruling – which led several of the state’s in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers to halt their work – by passing a bill to protect providers’ ability to offer that treatment. Yet, just hours after the legislature passed those protections, Republicans in the Iowa statehouse passed a fetal personhood bill that amends state law to criminalize causing the “death of an unborn person”.
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As of 2022, at least 11 states – including Alabama – have what Pregnancy Justice identified as “extremely broad personhood language that could be read to affect all state laws, civil and criminal”, according to a brief by the organization. “Those are the ones that really have the power in their language itself to increase criminalization of pregnant people, to threaten IVF, to threaten forms of contraception and obviously to ban abortion,” Sussman said.
Even if a fetus a person, it doesn't actually mean what they seem to think it means.
There's no law stating one person is required to donate blood, organs, or even time and effort, to save the life of another person.
So a fetus is a person now. That doesn't give it the right to take anything from its mother against her will.
Ib4 they reach the end game and pass a law for mandatory organ donation and start harvesting the organs of the poor for the rich.
The counter argument to 'bodily autonomy' is that not donating blood or organs is a passive act, while an abortion is an active one.
I don't agree, just putting it out there.
So is shooting someone raping you and it’s still legal because you get to control what someone else does to your body.
We cannot even harvest organs from a deceased anonymous person without their permission. A corpse has more body autonomy than a woman
Christian fascists and their ongoing efforts to turn women into second-class citizens.
I can't wait for someone to freeze 12 embryos and claim a few thousand in child support every month.
"Hello IRS? I have a dozen dependant extra-uterine children, that's cool right?"
IRS is federal, so this would only be relevant on the state level.
"Hey, let's criminalize miscarriages!"
-GOP politicians across the country
I'd say don't give them ideas, but they're already planning for that.
Yep, I was referring to that lady from Ohio. They eventually dismissed the charges, but still wtf?
That's the idea... They aren't worried because they know that rules like that don't apply to their class.
They already have in some states. If a woman comes to the emergency room with signs of a miscarriage, they are supposed to ask her if she has taken any abortificants and if she answers in the positive it’s a crime.
Does this mean embryos are dependents? And if you have 20 frozen embryos you can claim them all on tax documents
It's getting really, really dangerous to have sex these days even in a LTR.
Granny sex. Post-menopause, no pregnancy. Plenty of nursing homes full of grannies ready and waiting.
Ironically I just read an article about how unplanned pregnancies are skyrocketing amongst women in their 40s who assume they are done with menopause.
Not implying than 40s is "granny" but I thought it was interesting.
Have you tried being gay?
Yup, and even surgical sterilizations have failure rates.
Logic trunked radio?
Fun system to use, not so fun when you're scanning the airwaves to be honest because many receivers have trouble decoding the talk groups in my experience.
Loss trepidation reaction
LTRs aren't that safe now you really need to have it in a JPL or even TYD if you want to be really careful.
Funny story. Nancy Reagan was apparently always personally ambivalent about abortion, but publically she was hard core Right To Life. That was until she found out embryonic stem cell research could help Ronnie's dementia. Suddenly, stem cell research was okay by her. Similarly, Right To Life advocate George W. Bush had no trouble endorsing a compromise that allowed some research to continue, because some embryos were more equal than others.
Lawmakers think they know better than their constituents.
"They want to rule, not represent."
A real race to the bottom with these guys
Republicans only pretend to value life when it doesn't cost them anything while they get to shame women.
They'll then insist to starve that poor child and blame the poor parents for that sweet, sweet dopamine hit of schadenfreude.
Their intent is entirely malevolent.
THIS could do what abstinense only education couldn't, lol