Anyway, I’ve emailed my state senator, which is about all I can do. I’ve told Mr. A. that if this passes, we are moving across the river to Minnesota, lease be damned. If the idiots in the legislature can make a bill that’s pretty much scientifically indecipherable, I have no doubt that they lack the scientific understanding to understand that hormonal BC poses no danger to our new “citizens.”

ND has population problems as it is. Do they really think that this sort of legislation is going to *attract* the young workers and professionals that they need? My eyes hurt from rolling so hard.

Gee golly William, I’m just not seeing it. But thanks for beating your presumably burly chest in defense of the imperiled damsels in distress, it looks to be quite a habit.

The fine damsels here at feministe are more than capable of defending themselves, though I’m not quite sure you rise to the level of imperiling. I do find it interesting that you perceived being dismissively called out on etiquette and a lack of grace as chest beating. I wonder why you seem to feel the need to steer an interaction in that directions. You did the same thing with Cara, incidentally; you behaved in a provocative manner that you should have known would be corrected and then you chose to interpret that correction as an act of aggression. Moreover you tried to paint yourself as the mature victim set upon by immature attackers. You then argued that the corrections you experienced were the result of other’s insecurity, implying that they were not only immature, out of line, and wrong but also weak (meaning you’re strong).

So, IVF embryos. Say we leave them for 18 years. Can we then draft them to serve in the military? How will they vote? What about teratomas?

One thing this convinces me of is that we need to improve our science education.

The bill declares that “any organism with the genome of homo sapiens” is a person protected by rights granted by the North Dakota Constitution and state laws.

OMFG, what a bunch of wingnuts.

These people have a religious and ocial agenda. The don’t really believe a clump of cells is a real person with full rights of personhood.

How do we know they’re lying? Because not a single one of them would risk like and limb to run into a burning fertility clinic to save a petri dish full of blastocysts.