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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNN reporting the Alabama legislature is preparing a bill to proclaim a frozen embryo is not a person to protect IVF.

This is going to get even more complicated. [/quote]
Can’t put that genie back in the bottle.[/quote]
+1 why is an embryo in a woman a life but not if it's in a petri dish?

Clearly, this is purely about trying to control a woman's body.[/quote]
The embryo has some chance of developing into a living person if it’s in a woman’s uterus, but an embryo has absolutely no chance of any significant development outside a woman’s body. Even the top embryo labs have never gestated an embryo remotely close to the point of viability. Without implanting in a woman’s body, an embryo has no more chance of developing into a living person than an unfertilized egg does.[/quote]

A huge hurdle in this circus is that Alabama holds that life begins are fertilization. Once that one sperm has broken through and is inside the egg and it’s fertilized, that’s it, according to that state. Hence why you hear “life begins at conception” that’s what they mean. Once that magic has started and the one cell starts dividing = life. Under Alabama law.

This is the basis for everything. In this case, it was irrelevant to the justices that the embryos had not been transplanted inside or uterus or weren’t inside a woman at all. Open and shut, once the egg is fertilized it’s life, whether inside some Petri dish or inside some woman’s uterus. And thus the court held a life is a life is a life, womb or no womb, frozen or not frozen. Please do not respond to my post telling me I don’t know biology. I do, I’m pro choice and I’m not an idiot. But this is the very basic belief of the case law in Alabama and in a lot of evangelical thinking.

So now they have to reconcile that life at fertilization view with embryos created outside a womb aka IVF. If they make an exception, it can back fire on their basic argument. I do not believe for one second that hard core republicans did not anticipate this conundrum. [/quote]

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