After reading through this ruling, I am curious. If the court is ruling that the embryos are "unborn children", what does that mean in terms of government benefits? Because if all my eggs are counted as an unborn child is the government going to give more benefits like food stamps or other forms of assistance? and in the theory that dest…
After reading through this ruling, I am curious. If the court is ruling that the embryos are "unborn children", what does that mean in terms of government benefits? Because if all my eggs are counted as an unborn child is the government going to give more benefits like food stamps or other forms of assistance? and in the theory that destroying the embryos is going to be classified as a homicide, what could the clinics be charged with as far as disregarding extra embryos? in the process of IVF.
There are a number of questions that definitely arise with the legal application of the principle that a human life begins at conception.
Should certain forms of government benefits be expanded to encompass the additional human lives? Certainly arguments can be made in favor of that, for if government assistance is counted as a right, the unborn child would as a basic premise have the same rights as children already born. Even if we do not count government assistance as a right, any effort to limit the expansion of those benefits would require a rationale that certain benefits are only for people already born.
Could embryo destruction be classified as a homicide, and therefore a potential crime? The current state of the law in Alabama and elsewhere is that the destruction of embryos at IVF clinics is not a criminal act, but it would only take an act of a fickle legislature to change that. This is the reason several IVF clinics in Alabama have suspended operations--they are fearful of future legal repercussions.
There are some significant questions which establishing that human life begins at conception demands society address. However, that should never be a reason to deny the personhood of the unborn child. Rather, we should embrace that challenge and debate those questions. My one absolute insistence is that wherever and whenever human life is created, we respect that new life.
After reading through this ruling, I am curious. If the court is ruling that the embryos are "unborn children", what does that mean in terms of government benefits? Because if all my eggs are counted as an unborn child is the government going to give more benefits like food stamps or other forms of assistance? and in the theory that destroying the embryos is going to be classified as a homicide, what could the clinics be charged with as far as disregarding extra embryos? in the process of IVF.
There are a number of questions that definitely arise with the legal application of the principle that a human life begins at conception.
Should certain forms of government benefits be expanded to encompass the additional human lives? Certainly arguments can be made in favor of that, for if government assistance is counted as a right, the unborn child would as a basic premise have the same rights as children already born. Even if we do not count government assistance as a right, any effort to limit the expansion of those benefits would require a rationale that certain benefits are only for people already born.
Could embryo destruction be classified as a homicide, and therefore a potential crime? The current state of the law in Alabama and elsewhere is that the destruction of embryos at IVF clinics is not a criminal act, but it would only take an act of a fickle legislature to change that. This is the reason several IVF clinics in Alabama have suspended operations--they are fearful of future legal repercussions.
There are some significant questions which establishing that human life begins at conception demands society address. However, that should never be a reason to deny the personhood of the unborn child. Rather, we should embrace that challenge and debate those questions. My one absolute insistence is that wherever and whenever human life is created, we respect that new life.