GiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoAlabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worriedwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkAlabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worriedwww.theguardian.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squaretsonfeir@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoSo if you pay to have them saved, then you decide you’re not interested in children anymore and you destroy them, are you going to jail for murder?
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoOf course not. The clinic workers will. You’re on the hook for being an accomplice.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months agoEven if you have children. If you have 15 fertilized embryos, this would mean you’d have to get all 15 implanted. Good luck. Got one implanted successfully and threw away the others? 14 counts of first degree murder.
minus-squaretsonfeir@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoWell, if you fertilize it, and it fails…. Murder. X15 failed attempts. Yikes.
So if you pay to have them saved, then you decide you’re not interested in children anymore and you destroy them, are you going to jail for murder?
Of course not.
The clinic workers will. You’re on the hook for being an accomplice.
“ordering a contact killing”.
Even if you have children. If you have 15 fertilized embryos, this would mean you’d have to get all 15 implanted. Good luck.
Got one implanted successfully and threw away the others? 14 counts of first degree murder.
Well, if you fertilize it, and it fails…. Murder. X15 failed attempts. Yikes.