You can't go after stupid with logic.
You gotta go after it with equally, if not more outrageous levels of stupid.
If am embryo is a kid, go for child support from the date of conception.
Sue for life insurance rights/benefits.
Get voting rights lowered by a year since the time in the tummy counts as life.
Just do the most outrageous things you can possibly think of and get legal precedent set based on the new state of stupidity.
You can only fight stupid with stupid.
Go do your best stupid.
BTW, in Canada, about 20 years ago, a brilliant comedian named Rick Mercer showed us how this was done.
At the time, the right wing nut jobs led by a man named Stockwell Day tried to kill same sex marriage legislation by campaigning on citizens being able to demand referendums by gathering enough signatures on a petition.
Mercer then decided to show us exactly how this was done by getting thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of signatures to hold a referendum on Stockwell Day changing his first name to "Doris".
The campaign promise was quietly dropped during the election. He also failed to become Prime Minister (thankfully).
I enjoyed being reminded of that. Thank you. 😀
#DorisDay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/doris-day-petition-hits-the-mark-1.209426
@cstross @chu @PonderStibbons The most chaotic right to go for on behalf of feetilized eggs?
Citizenship.
@chu so. An embryo frozen for 18 years is an adult?
It certainly seems to fit the ruling.
@chu adopt an embryo as a service:
don't have your own embryo? you can rent one!
VOTING RIGHTS FOR EMBRYOS NOW!
If there's one thing conservatives hate, it is giving non billionaires money/rights.
@chu True example: In 1979, homosexuality was still classified as a mental disorder in Sweden. Gays in Sweden started calling in sick.
Around two months later, homosexuality was struck from the list of mental disorders.
Source (in Swedish): https://da.se/2017/06/de-sjukskrev-sig-for-att-bli-friskforklarade/
When a woman and her unborn son were killed in the course of her Missouri Department of Transportation job, her family sued for wrongful death — but the department argued they're shielded from liability becauseher fetus counts as an employee.
Was the fetus paying income/payroll tax? Where's it's vacation pay? Backpay for 6 months of unpaid labour as an employee?
@chu I believe getting child support from the date of conception / more financial support in general would unironically help conservative's goals of having less abortions because 73% of people who have an abortion mention their economic situation as one of the reasons for it [1]. But of course, that's not what conservatives want, because it would be a social program that does actual good.
Public discussion about abortion in the United States has generally focused on policy: who should be allowed to have abortions, and under what circumstances. Receiving less attention are the women behind the statistics—the 1.3 million women who obtain abortions each year1—and their reasons for having abortions.
They will do anything to avoid giving non-billionaires money.
@chu I like this plan.
But some of the fighting that turns this over may be internal on the far right.
Childless couples pouring everything they have into IVF come from many faiths, but there is a desperate edge to some of the Christian families doing this, as they seem to feel a sort of frantic obligation to have kids.
Making it impractical/impossible/illegal for those folks is going to make for some ugly fights within their own ranks.
@chu I mean, this and also: the IVF industry is worth $23bn a year in the US.
This is DeSantis vs. Disney all over again. It's a culture war that can only succeed if some of the world's richest people and their extremely high end lawyers just lay down and die.
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