Gaming the One-Cell Humans

A court case in bouncing around in Ohio involving a divorced couple who stored 19 fertilized eggs in a frozen embryo facility. A dispute developed as to who those fertilized eggs belong to. The man wanted possession of all of them so he could "give them to other couples" or, it is implied, destroy them. He wanted no role in the ex-wife's life and opposed her using his sperm cell to have a child. She wanted all of them as well. Apparently this has happened before and one "solution" has been to consider the frozen embryos "property" just like the cars and furniture and give half to each. Another is to give them all to the woman. The man objected to these because it does not solve his problem. There was some kind of a contract the couple signed about a hypothetical divorce, but it did not resolve the disagreement.

Not mentioned in the dispute is custody of future children and money for child support. The couple has two children which were conceived with invitro. I assume the man is paying for child support. The woman says she had mental problems which were solved by having her babies. The unspoken issue is whether the man will be required to pay for future children the wife might decide to have. If she finds her two present children give her happiness maybe she is thinking more babies will make her even happier. What about 19 more? The man may see himself on the hook for all of them. 

I didn't follow all the decisions thus far in the case, but noted one judge said these fertilized eggs are "potential" humans. Another judge said they are at this moment all humans. I'm not an attorney but it seems imperative there be a decision about these 19 fertilized eggs as well as the hundreds of thousands now frozen and in storage. One hears stories that some of these were fertilized with the sperm of a friend because the male partner's sperm is faulty. Even if contracts were signed that the sperm donor is not responsible for support of a potential future child, the donor may not be protected or may need to spend his own money defending himself.

It seems impossible the entire court system could rule that every one of the estimated one million frozen embryos are human beings with the same rights as you and me. Every sperm donor would be on the hook for either murder if the embryo is flushed into the sewer or child support if there is a birth. Of course, the Forced Birth industry cannot afford to have the embryo treated as anything but a human being because every embryo is to be forced into a birth.

Forced Birth has painted itself into a corner with the Catholic one-cell human.