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Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show
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You need to go back to HS biology. An unfertilized egg is exactly that an egg.
You need both an egg and sperm to make an embryo.
Menstruation happens BECAUSE there isn’t an embryo.
I don’t agree with the ruling any more than the next guy but this take is just dumb.
They seem to understand that a embryo is a fertilized egg, I think they are just pointing out the next logical step would be to arrest any woman who doesn't get her eggs fertilized and any man who spills his sperm on the ground because that's children being murdered..
Comments like the one above, and upvotes on those comments, are shocking common in threads about this ruling. I wonder how many people in America don’t remember their grade school biology, or didn’t get taught this.
I also wonder how much this is playing into America’s abortion laws. If people don’t understand the grade school biology, how can they possibly make an informed decision at the ballot box?
Agreed. There's plenty to be upset about without also inventing things the way conservatives often do.
And getting things wrong just gives them the opportunity to dismiss everything you say based upon a single flaw they can latch upon: "Oh, clearly you haven't done enough research into the topic to be taken seriously."