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How literal is this meant to be? Could someone request social security numbers for frozen embryos?
by qgin 3y ago
How literal is this meant to be? Could someone request social security numbers for frozen embryos?
- readthenotes1 3y agoTo continue, if a fetus Auto aborts after the woman has eaten some ice cream and got infected with listeria can she be arrested for involuntary manslaughter? Since birth control pills work in part by ensuring that an embryo cannot latch on to the uterus wall, can a woman taking birth control be arrested on suspicion of murder? We haven't really grappled legally or morally with what is it mean to be a human person, and I guess we are going to have to
- calamari4065 3y agoGiven the not-so-thinly veiled intent of these laws, I'm sure we'll be seeing these cases pop up quite soon.
- bediger4000 3y agoBanning IUDs and The Pill has been an explicit goal of the Pro-life people since at least the mid 1980s. Round about 1985, I got a flier about this under my windshield wipers in St Louis.
- sidewndr46 3y agoSocial Security and TIN are Federal things so it is irrelevant.
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- roughly 3y agoCouple child tax credit claims oughta clear all that right up.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoNice. Instant business model: create 1000 embryos for tax purposes.
- gcanyon 3y agoSend a 5-years-old-but-just-born infant to kindergarten?
- threeseed 3y agoThe stupidity of this takes you in all sorts of directions. What about child support. Or if the parents die why happens to the embryos. Will hospitals be found liable for murder if they fail to keep them alive. And what happens about inheritance in the absence of a will.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAnd let's say an embryo falls into a cryofreezer for 1000 years, that's going to be some fun estate probate.
- Auracle 3y agoPart of the forms you sign when you do IVF is detailing what should happen to the embryos if you both of you die, in fact. From what I recall the options were to destroy them, donate them (to couples wanting to conceive), or pass on the ownership to someone else.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoI'm wondering if the lack of a birth certificate causes a problem here.