Was not sure how to react or respond to reading this article, particularly the excerpt below:
The legal definition of involuntary manslaughter is negligently causing the death of another person. In fact, a New York woman named Jennifer Jorgensen was charged with manslaughter in 2008 after getting into a car accident while eight months pregnant. Her baby was delivered via emergency C-section but died five days later, and Jorgensen spent three years in prison for manslaughter before her conviction was overturned.
The woman gets in an accident, loses her new born in the process and does prison time for three years as punishment. The loss of her child was not enough punishment already and she needed more? It's hard to think of a more inhumane way to treat a mother who has just lost her baby. And yet there is no legal or ethical quandary in disposing off of human embryos in fertility clinics. Suddenly the rules of engagement are very different. It's as if a woman's body and soul cannot be commandeered and crushed then its not a cause worthy of regulating and legislating.
The legal definition of involuntary manslaughter is negligently causing the death of another person. In fact, a New York woman named Jennifer Jorgensen was charged with manslaughter in 2008 after getting into a car accident while eight months pregnant. Her baby was delivered via emergency C-section but died five days later, and Jorgensen spent three years in prison for manslaughter before her conviction was overturned.
The woman gets in an accident, loses her new born in the process and does prison time for three years as punishment. The loss of her child was not enough punishment already and she needed more? It's hard to think of a more inhumane way to treat a mother who has just lost her baby. And yet there is no legal or ethical quandary in disposing off of human embryos in fertility clinics. Suddenly the rules of engagement are very different. It's as if a woman's body and soul cannot be commandeered and crushed then its not a cause worthy of regulating and legislating.
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