Tennessee Another Twist On Personhood

[TheMastersNemesis]

According to a new article on Think Progress the Tennessee legislature is considering a law that would make it a criminal offense to harm an embryo? How would you determine that? Anyway I am wondering how crazy things will get before we even get to November.

I have a question? Do we need to change our laws in a way that we issue a "certificate of conception" rather than a "certificate of birth"? Or do we need to issue both. And how does that effect inheritance laws.

Addendum - If we issue a "certificate of conception" how does one give it a name? Do we do a DNA test on the embryo to determine if it will be a boy or girl? It would be odd to be called a boy named Susan.

[spanone]

1. my state, a constant embarrassment. republican house, senate, governor.

this is the results of having complete republican rule

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Yes Tn sure tries to out stupid other red states. Writing the governor and telling him what

you think doesn't do any good because they send you an standard email back. You can tell them they are making Tn a laughing stock and low and behold they send you a email thanking them for sending it and he would send it over to the house. I have already sent to emails on 2 different things and got the same standard email back. So unless I put $10,000 before he'll ever listen to me or any of us.

[pscot]

8. You are definitely a caution

to the rest of us.

[cynatnite]

11. I'd move if it wasn't for my grandchildren...

I'm constantly embarrassed to be in this state.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Corporations are a person ,they

have a certificate of Deception , who gave it to them ? the same people that would define the conceived rights.

[LiberalLoner]

3. That would criminalize every single miscarriage. Wow. Just wow.

[HockeyMom]

4. How could they determine the miscarriage of an embryo?

Most women themselves wouldn't even know that early on.

[libinnyandia]

7. Come on now, you don't expect them to think things out , do you?

[intaglio]

6. That's going to make mother's drinking illegal

and smoking by the mother or anyone in her vicinity illegal. Certain chemicals like gasoline vapour can also harm the embryo - this is going to be fun.

[CrispyQ]

9. "...how does that effect inheritance laws."

That is a question that will definitely be of interest to the 1%.

[Fresh_Start]

10. Does Tennessee have state income tax?

try to claim the additional dependent.

[spanone]

12. no state income tax