Ideologues are full of hubris over ideas, but they lack the leadership and problem-solving skills necessary to APPLY knowledge. And they lack logic. With this line of thought, women become reduced to vessels for male sperm—and all the violence THAT implies. No clarity has been offered re: care, [education, schooling and support!] of the so-called “embryonic people.” The parents wanting a healthy child who spent thousands in cash now become targets for a theocracy . . .and dreams of parenthood go right out the window. Or does Alabama plan on forcing women to carry pregnancies and give birth to these embryos? Alabama, a state so poor, it is a top ten recipient of federal revenues—they can’t even support the population they already have! And now, 50% of that population is being stripped of its rights over privacy and over their own bodies. Alabama extremism is well on the road toward violation of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics: Lack of consent, coercion; a State experiment enforced by people lacking medical expertise (no, lawyers and elected officials are NOT medical experts, and threatening prison or worse IS coercive); invoking physical, mental suffering & injury—without acknowledging the inherent risks for death and injury.
Ideologues are full of hubris over ideas, but they lack the leadership and problem-solving skills necessary to APPLY knowledge. And they lack logic. With this line of thought, women become reduced to vessels for male sperm—and all the violence THAT implies. No clarity has been offered re: care, [education, schooling and support!] of the so-called “embryonic people.” The parents wanting a healthy child who spent thousands in cash now become targets for a theocracy . . .and dreams of parenthood go right out the window. Or does Alabama plan on forcing women to carry pregnancies and give birth to these embryos? Alabama, a state so poor, it is a top ten recipient of federal revenues—they can’t even support the population they already have! And now, 50% of that population is being stripped of its rights over privacy and over their own bodies. Alabama extremism is well on the road toward violation of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics: Lack of consent, coercion; a State experiment enforced by people lacking medical expertise (no, lawyers and elected officials are NOT medical experts, and threatening prison or worse IS coercive); invoking physical, mental suffering & injury—without acknowledging the inherent risks for death and injury.
You are so right. It is a nightmare and in the 11 states that have decided a fetus has the right to personhood a woman is not safe.