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ysabetwordsmithFrozen embryos are children, Ala. high court says in unprecedented ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them, a decision that reproductive rights advocates say could imperil in vitro fertilization (IVF) and affect the hundreds of thousands of patients who depend on treatments like it each year.
I cracked up laughing. See, here's the thing about frozen embryos: storing them isn't cheap. Alabama is going to hemorrhage money. After all, if the parents can't afford to pay the fertility clinic for maintenance, and the clinic isn't providing that service for free, who's on the hook for those "children" now? Alabama Family Services.
Of course, in theory, they could hire surrogates to birth the babies, but that's expensive too. Then AFS would have to pay someone else to raise them, since they're unwanted. That's if you can pry the parental rights away from the people who provided the genetic material, which is not easy, as demonstrated by many previous divorce battles over embryos. More money down the drain. Let's not forget, Alabama is Deep South which is dirt-poor compared to the North already.
Congratulations, Alabama, you just punched the Tar Baby. Have fun with that.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them, a decision that reproductive rights advocates say could imperil in vitro fertilization (IVF) and affect the hundreds of thousands of patients who depend on treatments like it each year.
I cracked up laughing. See, here's the thing about frozen embryos: storing them isn't cheap. Alabama is going to hemorrhage money. After all, if the parents can't afford to pay the fertility clinic for maintenance, and the clinic isn't providing that service for free, who's on the hook for those "children" now? Alabama Family Services.
Of course, in theory, they could hire surrogates to birth the babies, but that's expensive too. Then AFS would have to pay someone else to raise them, since they're unwanted. That's if you can pry the parental rights away from the people who provided the genetic material, which is not easy, as demonstrated by many previous divorce battles over embryos. More money down the drain. Let's not forget, Alabama is Deep South which is dirt-poor compared to the North already.
Congratulations, Alabama, you just punched the Tar Baby. Have fun with that.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2024-02-27 06:00 am (UTC)Why any man wants to make women miserable is beyond me. That's just asking to have your balls kicked down the street. Happy woman, happy you.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2024-02-27 06:55 am (UTC)>>Why any man wants to make women miserable is beyond me. <<
Easy, they think we are things, not people, and things do not have feelings.
>>That's just asking to have your balls kicked down the street.<<
Most men also do not see us as threatening, though it likely has several variations:
- the things-not-people thing again
- the [cultural] assumption that women are not formidable combatants
- dominance theory, where the only people you have to worry about are your level and above
- the never-thought-about-it assumption that women exist to make life pleasant and comfortable, like hose elves
Doesn't help that a lot of us women are mentally declawed at a very young age, either.
>>Happy woman, happy you.<<
Well, only if other people's happiness impacts yours.
I observe that a lack of empathy in a socially-functional person often manifests as their assigning their own emotions to other people around them. Essentially, the brain fills in a blank space with the emotional data they have available, where a more empathic brain would pick up on the outside feelings and not need a substitution.
Now, lack of empathy doesn't have to mean a personality disorder, it could be that the anti-empath:
- is sick, injured, traumatized, or has basic needs like food or sleep that are unmet
- doesn't not respect their communication partner or consider them a person (common with prejudice, also parents trying to assign kids feelings)
- never really learned to empathize (more common with people raised in privilege)
- just plain don't have an innate skill for it, which could be basic personality (the engineer always trying to fix people) or part of the person's brain structure/biochemistry/mental state (alexithymia, some neurodivergent folks, some mental illnesses, TBI)
So, empathy can vary depending on a whole lot of things. Also, compare affective empathy [you feel sad, so I feel sad] with cognitive empathy [Your cat died, you probably feel sad, I should offer you tissues and say 'there, there.']
Anyway, with men specifically... in this culture most men are not traditionally taught empathy, and men are a higher social 'class' than women and genderqueer folks so there is often no significant consequence to lacking the skills (until a favorite woman or other gender gets fed up enough to walk away).
And that's how we end up with guys who think mansplaining a woman's feelings to her is a good thing. Seriously. (And no IT IS NOT!)
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