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Ferrets are Cool

(21,110 posts)
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 08:30 AM Feb 19

RE" The Alabama SC ruling that frozen embryo's are children ...

Next up it will be illegal to masturbate in red states.

This has to be the most stupid and ill conceived (pardon the pun) law ever in the history of laws.
Just listen to this wording:
The ruling pointed to the Alabama Constitution Section 36.06, which argues that each person was made in God’s image, meaning each life has an incalculable value that “cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”

“Section 36.06 recognizes that this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life ― that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,” the ruling stated, referring to the Alabama Constitution’s Section 36.06.

OMFG.

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Walleye

(31,052 posts)
1. I always use it this example, a fireman goes into a burning building he can only save one thing
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 08:36 AM
Feb 19

He can either bring out the crying baby or the canister with 100 frozen embryos. Which would you have him choose?

TheRickles

(2,081 posts)
4. By my calculation, every sperm is half as sacred as an embryo (which is one egg plus one sperm).
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 08:52 AM
Feb 19

That's still pretty darn sacred, right? Half of infinity is still infinite, and surely worthy of protection.

Irish_Dem

(47,399 posts)
6. Men's sexual activities will never be curtailed, only women.
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 09:22 AM
Feb 19

All the laws, restrictions, jail sentences, and literally death sentences are all directed at women.

Men are half the reproduction equation but it's only the women were being targeted.

Diraven

(530 posts)
7. Weird how often they invoke God
Mon Feb 19, 2024, 10:00 AM
Feb 19

It's weird how often they invoke the authority of God as deciding this ruling when that section of the Alabama Constitution never actually mentions him.

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