The Justice Department said this week that informant Alexander Smirnov invented a story about $5 million bribes paid to Joe and Hunter Biden and is also "peddling new lies."
The Arizona supreme court said, said, that frozen 12 cell embryos are “babies”
Women using IVF to try and have an actual baby are told the jar of frozen cell clots are all babies and medical professionals will now not touch them for fear of loony nuts sending police into hospitals.
Personally I think the whole thing is overblown. Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about banning IVF; they just put some scary biblical language into an otherwise very reasonable decision about damages for a guy who broke into a clinic and accidentally destroyed some embryos and now is on the hook financially. Pro-choice people saw the language and flipped out, a little understandably given the current political climate, and the media ran with the story, but I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone is actually trying to ban or regulate IVF in any way. (maybe just 1-2 total wackos who just saw the story and jumped to ban it just from being wired for anti-woman-ness and not knowing IVF from IUD)
Babies are what now? I haven’t heard that before. Any links?
@tesseract @circularfish
The Arizona supreme court said, said, that frozen 12 cell embryos are “babies”
Women using IVF to try and have an actual baby are told the jar of frozen cell clots are all babies and medical professionals will now not touch them for fear of loony nuts sending police into hospitals.
The IVF thing.
Personally I think the whole thing is overblown. Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about banning IVF; they just put some scary biblical language into an otherwise very reasonable decision about damages for a guy who broke into a clinic and accidentally destroyed some embryos and now is on the hook financially. Pro-choice people saw the language and flipped out, a little understandably given the current political climate, and the media ran with the story, but I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone is actually trying to ban or regulate IVF in any way. (maybe just 1-2 total wackos who just saw the story and jumped to ban it just from being wired for anti-woman-ness and not knowing IVF from IUD)
@mozz @circularfish @tesseract
This is bullshit, playing down the loss of rights. The criminalization of women, the involvement of the state, the plans of the very crazy far right.
Sure sure, just get on the train, get on the train. Get on the Train Sophie.