Fertilized eggs have rights too
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The potential language for an anti-choice ballot measure, upheld last week by the Colorado Supreme Court, would give rights to fertilized eggs. Yes, fertilized eggs. Not an implanted pregnancy, not a fetus, but a fertilized egg.
Really, this shouldn’t be hard to write about, but it is because it is so totally absurd. Fertilized eggs? Rights?
Basically, any woman who has unprotected sex could have a fertilized egg inside of her. Not a viable pregnancy because at that point, no implantation has occurred.
And there is no way to track a fertilized egg like there is a viable pregnancy. Which leaves the door open for a severe attack on women’s rights. I’m not talking abortion rights, I’m talking basic access to contraceptives, stem cell research, in-vitro fertilization.
Do we really want to impose one person’s definition of when life begins on every woman in Colorado?
Really, this shouldn’t be hard to write about, but it is because it is so totally absurd. Fertilized eggs? Rights?
Basically, any woman who has unprotected sex could have a fertilized egg inside of her. Not a viable pregnancy because at that point, no implantation has occurred.
And there is no way to track a fertilized egg like there is a viable pregnancy. Which leaves the door open for a severe attack on women’s rights. I’m not talking abortion rights, I’m talking basic access to contraceptives, stem cell research, in-vitro fertilization.
Do we really want to impose one person’s definition of when life begins on every woman in Colorado?
