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A facility messed up and a bunch of embryos were destroyed. Now the potential parents can sue. That doesn’t sound bad. Embryos shouldn’t be treated like bags

• acdha 3y ago
  Valuable property, sure, but there are a ton of negative outcomes to treating one Christian schism’s biblical fanfic as law: IVF almost always ends up creating multiple embryos. If one fails to implant or develop, if it’s a child that means the same kind of legal procedure you’d need for an actual dead child - which is pure cruelty to a prospective parent who has already had something they very much wanted to work fail. If it’s a child, you’re apparently obligated to pay to store those embryos forever to avoid murder charges - perhaps you even need to endow a trust or the state needs to accept them into the foster system if you die? What are the odds that someone will even argue that you should be compelled to try using them even if the mother doesn’t want to, her health or finances aren’t good, etc.? Like all pregnancies, IVF also has failure modes which end up needing an abortion to protect the mother’s health and fertility, and the people trying it are more likely to have problems (older, predispositions, etc. - that’s why they’re seeking treatment!) so it’s an amplified version of the normal risks where you would be paying a lot for the opportunity to have armed state security agents force you to take significant health risks. That’s guaranteed to kill people.