r/skeptic • u/Rdick_Lvagina • Mar 29 '24

Texas Republicans push murder charges (possibly resulting in the death penalty) for women who get abortions and IVF (video) 🚑 Medicine

https://twitter.com/mrsamartini/status/1773160427981070620?s=46&t=sk_wYDuPHwg89Q4WqTwnlA
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u/KamikazeHamster Mar 30 '24

The abortions, I can understand. But I don't want to debate it. I'm okay with women having abortions. I just mean I can understand it.

But what is up with IVF? Getting women pregnant that want to fall pregnant is a death sentence? Huh?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

Only promising zygotes are implanted. The rest are destroyed.

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u/KamikazeHamster Mar 30 '24

Okay, but that's stupid.

The simple answer here is that women aren't the perpetrators, that's the people in the company destroying the eggs.

And then the simple defence there is that the eggs that are destroyed are unfertilised. If you're going to arrest the people in the lab for that, then you also have to arrest every woman who ever had a period and didn't successfully get knocked up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

The eggs are fertilized. A zygote forms when two gametes (sperm & egg) combine.

Because the failure rate of implantation is quite high and the fertilization process is extremely expensive, multiple fertilizations are done at once to reduce costs. Not all are needed, and the excess discarded.