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Babby Talk #3

Babby Talk #3

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Feb 29, 2024
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This week I am thinking about IVF and the great state of Alabama. Certainly if corporations are people then embryos can also be people? Why not just go for it, right? Is what I imagine these a-holes were thinking. The idea that every embryo is a real life child disguised as a ball of cells would be funny if I wasn’t busy vomit-choking unable to breathe because these are actual laws being passed that affect alive human people’s living lives. 

Both of my kids were born via IVF because sometimes making babies doesn’t just happen on its own. But you know what? Any person who has undergone IVF can surely tell you that not every embryo can or will become a baby. Maybe nobody has told that crazy old kook of a judge. Maybe he doesn’t know anyone who has struggled with infertility or multiples rounds of egg retrievals and failed implantations. But here it is again for the misogynists way in the back: not every embryo will be implanted in a uterus and not every embryo implanted in a uterus will …

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