Eggs Are Not People. But the Anti-Abortion Movement Wants to Change That.

[Nevilledog]

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Conservatives have long relied on the false promise that no matter how many abortion restrictions they enact, they’re not targeting the people who have abortion. They’ll regulate abortion into nonexistence by targeting providers and, as with Texas SB 8, anyone who helps someone obtain an abortion—from the person who drives a patient to the clinic to the person who answers phones for their local abortion fund. Despite that, they’ll say pregnant people are not in their crosshairs.

But now they’re saying the quiet part out loud.

Anti-abortion lawmakers are working to enact “personhood” laws, which codify into law the concept that life begins at conception. In the simplest of terms? Personhood laws confer all the same rights that living, breathing human beings have onto a fetus; they make abortion murder and anyone who has an abortion a murderer.

Abortion advocates have warned against such measures for years, arguing that personhood was the eventual endgame of the anti-abortion movement. Now creeping personhood seems to have escalated to a sprint.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is poised to decide the most consequential abortion case in decades—Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which will likely bring about the end of Roe v. Wade as we know it by gutting the constitutional protections that, frayed as they may be, have been safeguarding access in this country since the 1970s. And it’s only getting worse from here.

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[live love laugh]

1. To simplify: eggs are not chickens.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Or, "Don't count your humans before they hatch." nt

[uponit7771]

2. They want eggs to be sapient beings and don't understand why they can't be

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Eggs sure as hell are not people; neither are sperm.

This whole business just makes me sick.

How do we stop them?

[jcgoldie]

5. mmm but people are delicious!

[Caliman73]

13. I like mine sunny side up, but I will take them scrambled.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[cbabe]

7. Jewish law says life begins at birth, not conception. Why aren't lawyers using this?

[Sur Zobra]

19. That would blow up the anti-choice/evangelical politician's

claim that we are a judeo-christian country. I’m sure pro choice advocates will begin to argue the judeo version of when life starts when confronted by these personhood laws.

[Retrograde]

8. If eggs are people, so are sperm

Although the anti-woman brigade will find a way to tap-dance around that

[grumpyduck]

9. Sometimes I think some people just have too much time on their hands.

[MiHale]

10. Will we be forced to hold funerals after menses...

Better save everything or it’s tampering with evidence.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. They're not making that claim about unfertilized eggs, but they are about zygotes.

[Bettie]

12. They are so eager to give fertilized eggs "personhood" that

they will take away that status from any woman who can become pregnant.

Once a woman is pregnant, she's no longer a person, she's an incubator in their estimation.

[RobinA]

15. They Want To Go After

birth control next. Personally, I think this will be biting off more than they can chew, but these days anything can happen.

[Bettie]

24. Yes, that will be next

unless they get sidetracked by taking marriage rights away from GLBT people.

[cbabe]

14. Also, if eggs are people, sure puts a kink in the Census with six million eggs per woman.

[nuxvomica]

16. This is one of the reasons gender-reveal parties are bad

Aside from the loss of life, and sometimes forest fires, due to poorly handled explosions, gender-reveal parties subtly assert personhood for the foetus. I've always felt they were part of a plan.

[Corgigal]

17. Lots of women will disappear,

and even middle class, blond and blue eyed ones.

Men will not pay for a good time had by all, for 18 years. It wasn’t me, doesn’t work anymore.

[LastDemocratInSC]

18. If I buy a sparkplug

do I need to get full car insurance for it?

[imaginary girl]

20. Anything for fetal life, yet...

...no concern or assistance for struggling people or the natural world!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

21. Personhood laws basically say..."The State now CONTROLS your body."

Anything you do to PREVENT pregnancy will now be a crime.(That means using Contraception, getting tubaligations, IUDs)

Miscarriages will be subject to criminal prosecution on the charge of intent.(Miscarriages happen, intended or not.)

And women still vote for Republicans?

[SYFROYH]

22. Even though fertilized eggs are complete genetic human organisms, personhood begins at birth

It's a good rule.

[MurrayDelph]

23. I keep wanting to take

a box of Betty Crocker to the church bake sale.