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Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF in wake of ruling saying frozen embryos are children (www.wabe.org)

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A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments as healthcare providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of […]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not quite, but every miscarriage is now potentially a murder case. Exactly what everyone would want after that kind of trauma. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The fun part is that over 50% of fertilizations result in a miscarriage, either due to a failure to implant or because of another pregnancy related event, all due to natural causes. So if a fertilized egg equals a person, they might want to have a talk with that god fella, who engineered it that way on purpose.