Just one day after deciding in favor of lying to educating abortion-seeking-women, the North Dakota House has voted 51-41 to declare that a fertilized egg has all the rights of a born person. The bill now heads to the Senate.
The goal of this asinine legislation is to get abortion classified as murder. But what else does it mean? Go ahead and pass the law, North Dakota; I would love to move there just to be the one to sue you. A 30 year old is most definitely a person, but that doesn’t give him the right to use my body’s resources against my will, and I can remove him if I don’t want him there.
How is North Dakota going to afford all the investigations? Countless “people” die every day before they’re flushed out of women’s bodies. Go ahead and appoint a Tampon Task Force, fuckers. I look forward to claiming my zygotes on my taxes once I move there.
Ugh. Didn’t Colorado have something like this up for a vote during the election? It’s such a stupid idea. Will women who miscarry be charge with manslaughter or criminal negligence or something?
Nevermind the slew of misdemeanor charges on the manslaughter of fertilized eggs, cate.
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I just don’t see how a fertilized egg deserves the same rights as me. I am a living, breathing, fully realized person, but somehow this lump of cells deserves all the same rights as me? When it may not even implant itself or carry itself to term anyway?
The mind, it boggles. And now I’m stabby.
I really like your point about another person deserving the right to use your body’s resources against your will, and I wonder if that’s the next logical argument in the fight to keep abortion rights. I’ve read a lot about abortion debates and I don’t remember that point being made before, so either you’re the vanguard or I’ve missed it, but I prefer to assume the former
You do make some good points.
This makes me fucking angry and sick. If I want to take my damn eggs, fertilized or not, make a fucking breakfast burrito out of them, and hang it in a gallery, I should have that right.
I’m going to start saving up now for the Tampon Task Force.
@Britni – I thought I was the only person that used the stabby expression.
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