Embryo Rights?

Via Jezebel: "Earlier this week, the Tennessee state Senate offered its near-unanimous approval to a measure that would make it a crime to harm a fetus at any point in a woman's pregnancy, including before 6 weeks' pregnancy when a fetus is actually technically called an "embryo"...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss HB 3157 on The Young Turks.

*Read more from Erin Gloria Ryan here: http://jezebel.com/5904995/new-tennes...

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[k3nny111]

This is not about how much the embryo is "worth".

In any case the life and well-being of the mother should have highest priority. Carrying out the child of a rapist is mental torture of the highest degree. You can't inflict that kind of mental harm on anyone. Especially not just to safe the "life" of a pile of cells which has the potencial to become a human but by no means already is.

[TMBrd89]

You're correcting his grammar, after you ended a sentence with," that are incoherently?"

[KingLink95]

Kicking someone in the gonads is illegal. Its called assault.

[Runningjoels]

No they don't, the sperm would die anyway. Although I do agree we need to make masturbation illegal, or else tax it very high. I don't want tax subsidiaries going to dirty wang yankers.

[mrjerk716]

What a douce bag

[Oshyrath]

One day, having a period will be illegal.

[walexia]

what about sperm rights!!! they need rights too, they get massacred everyday by teenage boys!!

[cynopt]

It's always different when THEY need abortions. Wasn't there just a pro-life politician who got mad at his mistress for not having an abortion recently? TYT got it right, this is all about controlling women, they don't care about reproductive rights unless it affects them personally.

[moonlily1]

Or when the mothers seek government assistance to raise those children, or when those children grow up to be voting democrats.

[Dakotah07]

I don't see why Republicans are against abortions so much? I mean, what are they going to do when their "x" number of mistresses get pregnant?

[Scott Pederson]

Craziness at the highest degree. I'm ashamed to be from the south. Believe me, we're not all lunatics down here. I deeply apologize for the actions of these people. It's a dying shame I have to be associated with these over zealous lunatics.

[rpgspree]

No Cenk, the reason is simple, they can't baptize an unborn child. Once the child has been baptized, and thus its soul is "saved" or "cleansed", they no longer have any moral obligation as Christians to the child's life or well being. For them, "winning one" for Jesus, is all that matters.