▪️I think this Alabama SC decision was awful, but this meme follows the law of The Left Can’t Meme & gets it completely backwards. The fact is that storing embryos safely in a cryogenic nursery DOES take a lot of resources and this ruling makes it prohibitively expensive to do so!
▪️The background of this case was that a hospital patient wandered into a fertility clinic through an unsecured door. They entered the cryogenic nursery, removed several embryos, then dropped them on the floor when they freeze-burned their hand, killing the embryos.
▪️The couples who these embryos belonged to sued for damages based on Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The trial court dismissed it as it determined the IVF embryos were not children, but the Alabama SC reversed this, saying even “extrauterine children” are children protected under this act.
▪️Thus, this decision has nothing to do with neglecting embryos or controlling women, it’s the exact opposite. It means every single embryo in an IVF clinic is considered to have the rights of children, and the legal liability that carries with it. It means clinics must protect embryos as if they were children.
▪️Clearly, no one would want to operate an IVF clinic in this sort of legal environment. It’s reasonable that if an embryo is lost or destroyed a couple would be reimbursed for its costs, but to allow them to sue for damages as if it were an actual child brings a huge increase of risk to IVF clinics, for which services are already extremely expensive to prospective parents.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
