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surrealAmerican

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3. By this standard, any medical procedure that ...

Reply to Wait Wut (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 07:11 PM

Mar 2012

... a patient has to pay for would also qualify as something that "objectifies human life". Somehow I doubt that they want to ban the practice of medicine in Naperville.

The women who donate eggs, like people who donate blood or bone marrow or a kidney, should be fully informed about the procedures they consent to. They're not children, and should be treated as competent to make their own choices.

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Residents raise moral objections to proposed fertility clinic [View all] Wait Wut Mar 2012 OP

If they think the functions of this clinic are immoral mysuzuki2 Mar 2012 #1

'When did a woman's body become public property?' freshwest Mar 2012 #2

Sad. Wait Wut Mar 2012 #5

Sorry. Maybe it depresses me. The American I grew up in was one that was expanding human rights, not freshwest Mar 2012 #6

I'm optimistic about the backlash by women. Have you seen these: freshwest Mar 2012 #13

Loved the one by Nance! Wait Wut Mar 2012 #17

They finally realized the GOP is seeking to regiment their sex lives, too, no? freshwest Mar 2012 #18

By this standard, any medical procedure that ... surrealAmerican Mar 2012 #3

Think of the SPERM!!! Wait Wut Mar 2012 #4

Hehehe! Straight out of 'Legally Blonde.' freshwest Mar 2012 #9

Yikes. Wait Wut Mar 2012 #10

It was probably the only one of that type I really enjoyed. I'm more science fiction and adventure. freshwest Mar 2012 #11

Infertility wryter2000 Mar 2012 #7

Yes, you have. Wait Wut Mar 2012 #8

Science should really investigate this kind of stoopid. hifiguy Mar 2012 #12

We'd need teams of microbiologists... Wait Wut Mar 2012 #16

What the fuck? Can we just have a single day Mariana Mar 2012 #14

That's what I was thinking, as well. Wait Wut Mar 2012 #15