Pictures of Fertalized Eggs Now a Sex Crime in North Dakota?

[Christa]

This is 2 months old, but new to me.

You see this image? That’s a fertilized human egg. The North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill on Feb 19th 2009 which states that this picture is considered child pornography. The vote now goes to the North Dakota Senate for a vote. If passed, it means that if you post pictures of your ultrasound on Facebook, you run the risk of having to sign up for the sex offender registry.



http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/blog2/258

[Deja Q]

1. THAT is pornography? Just what sort of sickie would get turned on by that? Also,

[mrcheerful]

3. Rush, Ann, Diaper boy and all the rest of the nit wits out there.

[jwirr]

2. Apparently they don't have anything better to do with their time in ND,

[madeline_con]

4. Check this out...

From the article: "This bill that passed by 51-41 this afternoon declared that a fertilized egg has all the rights of any person. Sponsored by Rep. Dan Ruby, R, this effectively outlaws abortion in North Dakota.

Outlawing abortions obviously this leads to unregulated abortions, since abortions take place regardless of legality. However, having back-ally abortions is the least of womens’ concern. If the North Dakota Senate passes it as well, North Dakota would be able to prosecute women who have miscarriages as being criminally negligent."

These people are freaks. They honestly believe this will lead to abstinence in all but married women, who will ultimately carry all pregnancies to term, regardless of the situation or health condition of themselves or the fetus.

[Lorien]

9. The American Taliban lives

at the rate North Dakota is going they'll soon be stoning unmarried women who "fornicate" soon. They apparently see us as nothing more than white male fetus factories.

[walldude]

14. Isn't it funny how we used to think books like the Scarlet Letter

were morality tales trying to warn us, now they are instruction manuals for religious wacko's.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. don't you know

that every sperm is sacredO8) :rofl:

[tocqueville]

6. it reminds me of an old science-fiction novel

where the guy arrives on a planet populated by intelligent amoebas and is arrested for smuggling pornography, because the customs found an "earthling" biology book in his luggage showing drawings of unicellular organisms reproducing by scission. It shows that reality often overrides fiction...

[BlooInBloo]

7. Bioporn?

[Joanne98]

8. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The American Taliban strikes again.

[optimal-tomato]

10. Call me a freak if you want...

...but there's something about a nice, tight blastopore that really gets me going.

Don't get me wrong, I would never actually do anything. It's just something about the neatly defined germ layers... :hide:

[davidinalameda]

11. its another end run around Roe

[hlthe2b]

12. Looks just like a "sexy" ascaris (round worm) egg

Ascaris





Of course roundworms are the "sex snake" of the parasitic world... :eyes:

[ohheckyeah]

13. The author of that article

made a number of assumptions without backing them up. I couldn't find anywhere else that said the bill made a photo of a fertilized egg child pornography. Regardless, the bill was voted down by the ND Senate:

The Senate voted 29-16 Friday to defeat the controversial House Bill 1572, known as the personhood bill, with no debate.

Sen. Curt Olafson, R-Edinburg, the only person who spoke on it, said the bill would create more serious legal consequences for the state than any bill he’s ever seen as a lawmaker.

...He said it “reaches far beyond protecting human rights” into unrelated consequence because it declares all fertilized embryos persons for the purposes of myriad laws that have nothing to do protecting human rights.

A physician “faces an impossible dilemma” if needing to treat a pregnant woman for cancer that could harm a fetus or embryo, or a woman experiencing an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy, he said.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/north_dakota_senate_rejects_zygote_citizen_bill/

[bridgit]

15. I know for some reason I want a cigarette and I don't even smoke ~

[HopeHoops]

16. Yeah, my wife caught a glimpse of a picture like that once.

After she saw it, we had such hot sex that the neighbors all had cigarettes.

Republican stupidity seems to have no bounds. It is an obvious ploy to circumvent Roe v. Wade and not even a clever one. I assume they'll be having mass biology book burning parties now - probably sponsored by FOX.