Funerals for embryos?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Turn on 60 Minutes!!

Some idiot just said instead of discarding unused embryos, we should bury them as we would any other human remains.

[deadparrot]

1. Meanwhile, let's charge the "parents" with murder.

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Wasn't there some idiot RWinger who wanted to charge moms who

miscarried with murder?

[MountainLaurel]

35. Thinking about the VA legislation last year?

That would have required women having miscarriages to report them to the police or face jail time?

http://democracyforvirginia.typepad.com/democracy_for_virginia/2005/01/legislative_sen.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. Yes that was it.

Thanks

[clydefrand]

2. But, but, can't you just see those itty bitty embryo cemeteries?

And wow! those embryo crematoriums!

And think of the businesses that would be created! Teeny, tiny vessels for the ashes...give the Chinese more work...and those teensy weensy coffins, and little bitty floral arrangements for them, ah, and yes, microscopic clothes for them. The list goes on.

:bounce: :rofl: :D:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Would cremation be okay?

How would Jesus discard his embryos?

[Webster Green]

26. LOL!

"How would Jesus discard his embryos?"

That is one funny Sentence!:rofl:

[Sydnie]

14. Might be a good use for all the confiscated crack/pot pipes they

have collected and all the lighters they took from airline passengers. :sarcasm:

I said in another thread, we should start insisting on funerals for every hysterectomy. appendicitis, cancer mass, or severed limb from this point on. Sheesh!

[serryjw]

55. Funny...That is the first thing I thought of

Does the funeral industry donate to *??? Try and explaining that one to your kids.

[babylonsister]

3. But let's hide pix of caskets of soldiers 'returning home'. Sigh... nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Yeah that thought just went through my head too

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Uhhh what???

Are you serious or is this a joke?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I am series, Angel

This guy just said we should discard embryos the same way we deal with any other human remains. Leslie Stahl asked by burying them and he said yes.

[SoCalDem]

15. Bronzed ziplocs?

:spank:

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Yes that is bad

You deserve that spanking.

[clydefrand]

21. Love it! Thanks

[Maddy McCall]

38. Hahahaha!

[Lorien]

7. Burial or burning for 400,000 clumps of cells.

absurd. Yet they don't want to regulate fertility clinics. Sorry repugs-you can't have it both ways.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I keep thinking of Santorum and that baby in a jar

Would that be legal?

[pinto]

9. The idiot's welcome to his own opinion. And that's all it is.

[dsc]

17. the idiot is in charge of the government's opinon on this

He is Bush's advisor on medical ethics.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Yes and what a wasted mind he has.

[pinto]

23. Ugh. Thanks.

[MountainLaurel]

37. Do you remember his name?

I actually think I work at the same institution as this guy.

[leftchick]

34. he is on bush's ethics committee

so his opinion is "ours" :scared:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. I'm surprised bush hasn't conscripted the embryos to create

more troops to send to Iraq.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. But that would be cloning!

[clydefrand]

Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't give him ideas.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Poor baby Jane.

sniff...we hardly new yeah.

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[pitohui]

18. dollars to doughnuts he owns a funeral parlor

follow the money

[Road Scholar]

19. I saw that too. Damn! Every time I think I've heard or seen

everything, a lunatic like that shows up.So I've decided just wait, somebody will come along and top even that.Apparently there is no end.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. This reminds me of Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred".

[Mr_Spock]

25. Oh, please - bring this up as legislation - PLEASE!!!

Just so people can see how truly sick these Christo-fascist psychos are.

[fujiyama]

27. A funeral for this?

Why don't we have funerals for dead skin cells?

I'm at a loss for words.

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. Why it looks just like

a sonogram! Look - there is a little penis there. :sarcasm:

[HockeyMom]

28. Tampon Cemeteries?

Might be an embryo in there too. I suppose we should play tamps if we even SUSPECT a very, very early miscarriage; few days or a week? I suppose, though, flushing could be considered a burial at sea?

Geesch. This is way beyond BIZARRE.

[babylonsister]

29. HockeyMom,

burial at sea? :rofl: :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

41. we are sooooo bad...remember these guys?

[sandnsea]

40. yeah, but that's how bizarre we need to go

So bizarre that we shock some sense into them. This is always where I go first when I'm talking to an anti-abortionist. Then follow it up with the fact that abortions weren't invented after Roe and they won't go away if Roe goes away. They'll just be illegal again, that's all. It's been a 30 year sideshow and it's time to get down to the real issue of helping children who are here and providing a future so that pregnancy doesn't look like the way to adulthood.

[SoCalDem]

43. Knock Knock

"Who is it?..."

"It's the Ovulation Police, Ma'am...
We're here to 'check you'..

Well..well..well.. It appears that last night, you put a "bun in the oven", so we'll have to hook you up to the "fetus-alert monitor"..


If at any time during the next nine months, the monitor stops sending information back to HQ, you'll be arrested and charged with fetucide

Have a Nice day !"

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. Fetucide?

LOL You are on a roll this evening.

:rofl:

[Catchawave]

30. Reminds me of Howard Stern's

and his wife's miscarriage. Didn't he hold a "service" over the toilet?
It was mentioned in the book and movie Private Parts. As I recall his wife was pissed he talked about it publically on his radio show, but he explained how much he was grieving too, and found his bizzarro gross-out humor helped him.

Oh well, guess ya gotta know Stern to love him :silly:

[stepnw1f]

31. next we'll have Masturbation Crematoriums

:crazy: :wtf:

[gollygee]

32. Good way for a bunch of businesses to make money

Cemeteries, memorial markers, marble quarrys, etc.

Stupid as hell though.

[Beelzebud]

33. I cut my toenails last night. I think I'll bury them tomorrow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. Is it too late for me to send you a card?

Or can I just show up at the wake?

[Vinca]

36. Next time you get a haircut make sure you sweep up the clippings

for burial. That DNA could make a person and all human life deserves respect. Tomorrow we're having services for a hangnail.:rofl:

[killbotfactory]

39. Next up will be murder investigations!

Welcome to republican utopia, your uterus is now state property.

[DemoTex]

42. 60 Minutes was fairly anti-Bu$h tonight. All three segments, IMHO.

1. The billion$ missing in Iraq, Bu$h's optional war.
2. Bu$h's ban of using federal dollars for research on those frozen embryos that will be otherwise destroyed (totally insane). Maybe he is just cutting that funding to have more $100,000 "bricks" of money to give away in Iraq.
3. The severely injured soldiers from Iraq. A damning indictment of that unnecessary war. I never though I'd live to see anything worse than Viet Nam. Now, I have.

[Pushed To The Left]

48. I will definitely be watching! n/t

[goodboy]

49. Santorum (R-sick fuck) brought dead 20wk old fetus home to kiss and cuddle

with the kids...


Father First, Senator Second
For Rick Santorum, Politics Could Hardly Get More Personal

By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 18, 2005; Page C01

In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html

[Pushed To The Left]

50. I'm no Santorum fan, but that sounds like a very painful situation

for him and his family. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

[goodboy]

51. me either, but that doesn't change the fact that it's sick sick sick IMO.

I mean...what did they say, when they walked in the door?

Hey kids, here's your dead brother...give him a kiss?

[proud2BlibKansan]

54. He has a PICTURE???

This story just gets more and more sick.

Is the picture of the baby in jar or not in jar?

[sinkingfeeling]

52. What got me yelling at the idiot 'ethics' guy, was is statement that

'individuals shouldn't be making these decisions (what to do with frozen embryos(destroy, donate to other couples, keep them frozen forever, or donate to stem cell research)), but 'society' should make these decisions." So not only are women incapable of decisions regarding their own bodies, now both men and women shouldn't be allowed to dispose of embryos created in a lab with their own sperm and eggs.

[fortyfeetunder]

53. Oh good grief....

This seems like priming SCOTUS again....
:grr:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

56. So does this guy have funerals for every 7 week miscarriage? Does he

go to the hospital and scrounge those up? :shrug:

[ninkasi]

57. As someone who has had to bury

both of her parents, three of her brothers, three of one of those brother's children, a step-daughter, and all of my grandparents, those people make me sick. In each death, we were asked by the person giving the eulogy what thoughts we wanted expressed at the funeral service. For these sickos to equate the disposal of clumps of cells with the loss of living, breathing, feeling and loving humans, is an atrocity.

I cannot imagine a heroine like Cindy Sheehan grieving, and protesting, because of the loss of some unused embryos. Casey was her living, loving, son. He was killed because of Bush's lies, and now Bush supporters want to draw an equivalent between the people Bush has killed, and embryos. This is beyond sick to me.

[Crunchy Frog]

58. How close are we to holding routine funerals for

feminine hygiene products?

Given that a majority of fertilized eggs either fail to implant, or are miscarried so early that no pregnancy is ever recognized, the only sensible thing is to assume that any feminine hygiene product used by a sexually active female may contain the remains of a poor dead baby. This goes for women on birth control as well, since it's well known that all birth control methods have a certain failure rate.

So, when are they going to institute mandatory funerals for used tampons and sanitary napkins? It's only right that these sacred objects should be treated with the respect they deserve.