'Personhood' bill defeated in North Dakota Senate

[moobu2]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Senate has rejected legislation to bestow human rights on fertilized human eggs, whether they be in the womb or in a laboratory.

Senators voted 29-16 Friday to reject legislation that sought to define as a human being "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens." The "personhood" status would include a developing embryo from the moment of conception, whether inside or outside the womb.

A handful of states are considering similar proposals, and the measure generated an intense lobbying campaign from abortion opponents and people who favor abortion rights.

Sen. Curtis Olafson, a Republican, spoke out frequently against the bill, saying it would make it difficult for doctors to treat problem pregnancies that could threaten the woman's life because both she and her unborn child would have equal status under the law.

At a Senate hearing on the legislation, two reproductive endocrinologists testified that the bill would complicate the practice of in vitro fertilization, which involves removing eggs from a woman's body, fertilizing them in a laboratory, and implanting a fertilized egg inside the womb.

This is Representative Dan Ruby-R, the genius who introduced the bill

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[sakabatou]

1. Old news

Besides, if it went through, every time a woman had her period, she be committing murder.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Well...not everytime...just if there was a fertilized egg but I get your point.

[moobu2]

3. If they were fertilized then harmed intentionally

Which I guess would require monthly reproductive inspections.


Rep. Dan Ruby, the guy the introdused the bill, has 10 children BTW.