Funny ol' world, innit?

[markbark]

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]

1. If they aren't people; they are chattels.

Is there any other possible way to interpret this decision I might be missing?

[markbark]

5. Neither

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]

6. I agree the ruling is ridiculous. My point is as a matter of contract law

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]

7. Ah OK, gotcha..

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]

9. I will think about that again when the fundies start having

sperm funerals.

[marble falls]

2. Jebus.

[tanyev]

3. Someday I want to ask a rabid pro-lifer how they can sleep at night

when there are thousands and thousands of 'babies' locked up in freezers in fertility clinics all over this country.

[Ohiogal]

4. And this ruling was over a case in Ohio, no less

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]

8. Off to the greatest page

Great post

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R

[ismnotwasm]

11. Very True

OT, are you a “HellBlazer” fan? “Funny ‘Ol World” —That’s Constantine’s signature line