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DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:19 AM Feb 2012

OK gives embryos personhood and full citizen rights...BUT, what if it is a foreign woman?

You know how Republicans hate the idea of anchor babies and do everything they can to disenfranchise those children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120215/us-embryos-personhood-oklahoma/

"The bill provides embryos and fetuses with "all the rights privileges, and immunities" of other citizens."

I am thinking those dilweeds in Oklahoma don't realize that they just gave full citizenship to an embryo... even if it is in the body of a Mexican woman or a Japanese woman or any woman visiting from another country.

The Republicans may have just invented the "anchor embryo".

I wonder how they are gonna feel when they realize that they just accomplished a major plank of the DEMOCRATIC immigration platform.
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OK gives embryos personhood and full citizen rights...BUT, what if it is a foreign woman? (Original Post) DonRedwood Feb 2012 OP
What a horrendous bill that will cause legal and medical liberalhistorian Feb 2012 #1
What's next? A law forcing women to declare a possible embryo? BadgerKid Feb 2012 #2
There is no sensible response to such insanity... saras Feb 2012 #3
Uh... and we now need proof of "place of conception" ...??? wtf pkdu Feb 2012 #4
That has a certain beauty to it. aquart Feb 2012 #5
Yeah...can't wait for them to realize DonRedwood Feb 2012 #10
Right! treestar Feb 2012 #9
whoops, guess those ding-dongs didn't think that far ahead! lol Spock_is_Skeptical Feb 2012 #6
Think of the Embryos! tibbiit Feb 2012 #7
So all an illegal alien has to do is cross the border, have sex, and conceive mainer Feb 2012 #8

liberalhistorian

(20,815 posts)
1. What a horrendous bill that will cause legal and medical
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:23 AM
Feb 2012

nightmares and headaches in so many areas and ways. Mississippi, hardly a progressive mecca, didn't even pass it because of those very same concerns. I wonder how long it will be before they start prosecuting women who've had miscarriages?

BadgerKid

(4,550 posts)
2. What's next? A law forcing women to declare a possible embryo?
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:37 AM
Feb 2012

Can you imagine mandatory doctor's office visits every few months to check for embryos in the interest of the state. Holy crap.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
3. There is no sensible response to such insanity...
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:57 AM
Feb 2012

...so I offer up, yet again, a completely senseless response.

http://www.dareland.com/music/frozenembryos.mp3

Thanks to Michael Dare

treestar

(82,383 posts)
9. Right!
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:10 AM
Feb 2012

American women could have conceived while on vacation in another country! Bringing up at least issues regarding the embryo's citizenship!

tibbiit

(1,601 posts)
7. Think of the Embryos!
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:23 AM
Feb 2012

The ones that are frozen for In Vitro. Is this child abuse by the parents or the doctors/clinics? Is it murder on who's part to dispose of these very small people?
I want to know who is going to pay for all of this abuse to the unborn cells?
tib

mainer

(12,022 posts)
8. So all an illegal alien has to do is cross the border, have sex, and conceive
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:51 AM
Feb 2012

Then you can't toss her out because she's carrying an AMERICAN CITIZEN.

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