Friday, February 20, 2009
North Dakota House Passes "Personhood" Bill
The North Dakota House of Representatives recently passed a bill identifying even a one-cell embryo as a human being. Rather than calling it an anti-abortion bill, they are calling it a "personhood" bill in an effort to mask what it truly is. The final wording of the bill more or less gives full legal rights to anything carrying a human genome. This could be interpreted to mean that every time a person spits, or bleeds, or ejaculates and cells die that person has committed murder. It also would make abortion, or even the morning after pill for that matter, murder. The last time I checked though, a single cell didn't have a heartbeat, or brain waves or fingers and toes to wiggle or legs and arms to flail. The thing I find almost sad about this bill is that it's probably not really designed to pass as a real law. It seems to be designed to get passed and then challenged through the courts in an effort to overturn Roe v Wade. North Dakota, you make me sad. How about instead of putting so much effort into anti-abortion efforts, you put some real honest effort into working to reduce unwanted pregnancies in the first place? Let's be honest here: we all know abortion is ugly, but sometimes it is necessary, because as much as you may not want to admit it, a would-be mother's life has value too. Dare I say more value than a heartless, brainless, armless, legless clump of cells?
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