Monday, November 23

Chickens Coming Home to Roost.

Just... wow.
Super-feminist, rape survivor, law professor and Fox pundit Susan Estrich appears to pull a 180 here, re the importance of "embryos" and the ultimate role of the female human body.  (Hint:  if you thought the mind was the primary driver, Susan plucks a line from the past...)

An embryo is not life, but it isn't an expensive painting or a block of stock, either. Commodifying it, treating it like any other object of a contract, seems wrong — not from the point of view of the expanding cells in the embryo, but from that of the parents, and especially the mother. The ex-husband can look forward to someday having a family with another woman. Dr. Lee is losing the only chance she has at what is, for many of us, the most important thing we ever do, which is to have our children.
Quite revealing, really.