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Who Owns Pre-Embryos?
An anonymous reader writes: Scientifically and legally, frozen embryos are not the same as a living child. Nevertheless, they can inspire legal battles that resemble custody disputes. This article follows a case between a couple who had been dating for five months when the woman received a cancer diagnosis. Before beginning chemotherapy, she and her boyfriend of five months decided to harvest and set aside some fertilized eggs, just in case. (If the treatment saved her but destroyed her ability to have kids, and the couple stayed together and decided they wanted kids, the pre-embryos would preserve that option.) She survived, but their relationship didn't. With no explicit contract in place, the disposition/custody of the pre-embryos is now hotly contested. "[R]eading over the case, one gets the sense that there's a fundamental lack of language to describe what's at stake. There may be an emerging field of law and legal precedent, but the terms at hand don't adequately capture the nature of the dispute."
Each 'contributor' owns 50%. No decision regarding the subject pre-embryo may be be made without a majority.
Case closed.
So, what? You want to divide it in two and give each party one half? The problem you are missing is that one party may want to dispose of the pre-embryo while the other party may want to (eventually) birth and raise it. Those are mutually exclusive options.
Instead of "divide it into two and give each party one half" why don't they do something good ---- send all those 'pre-embryos' to China where they can be used for genetic manipulation experiments?
I find it utterly ridiculous on the mind of many Western nations on this issue
On one hand they do kill babies in the wombs up to the late 3rd trimester, for legally, those babies are not considered as 'humans'
On the other hand when others, especially the Chinese , carry out experiments on human embryos they all got band out of shape, accusing the Chinese as being BARBARIC , INHUMANE , and so on, and so forth
I mean, those are fertilized eggs that have not even developed into any shape that resembling a human being
Why the Westerners can kill BABIES that are already fully formed, with head, torso, limbs, eyes, mouth, ears, internal organs, all equipped, as long as they are still in the wombs, but all go hay-wired when the Chinese ran experiments on a batch of fertilized eggs that had two different sets of chromosomes (meaning: the eggs might have its cells multiply, but could never form into human babies)?