▪️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 bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
