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Aug. 8th, 2005 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockBefore my head explodes from the sheer stupidity of this
A national anti-abortion group yesterday served the administrators of California's stem cell institute with a federal lawsuit seeking to stop their work on the grounds that the civil rights of frozen embryos are violated by stem cell research.
The lawsuit was delivered during a a monthly meeting of the institute's oversight committee at the University of California San Diego. Around the same time it arrived, committee Chairman Robert Klein was announcing that several lawsuits filed in state court had been consolidated to be heard by one judge, in one county, on an expedited basis.
That litigation has blocked the sale of government-backed bonds to fund the institute, which is supposed to award $300 million annually for stem cell research.
The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children, could now further delay the sale of bonds.
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The suit was filed on behalf of Mary Scott Doe, a fictitious embryo produced by in vitro fertilization and then frozen and put into storage.
via Pandagon
If they can sue on behalf of a ficitious embryo, can I sue on behalf of unicorns, goblins and trolls? Every time a scientist works on stem cells a unicorn dies, you know...
A national anti-abortion group yesterday served the administrators of California's stem cell institute with a federal lawsuit seeking to stop their work on the grounds that the civil rights of frozen embryos are violated by stem cell research.
The lawsuit was delivered during a a monthly meeting of the institute's oversight committee at the University of California San Diego. Around the same time it arrived, committee Chairman Robert Klein was announcing that several lawsuits filed in state court had been consolidated to be heard by one judge, in one county, on an expedited basis.
That litigation has blocked the sale of government-backed bonds to fund the institute, which is supposed to award $300 million annually for stem cell research.
The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children, could now further delay the sale of bonds.
[...]
The suit was filed on behalf of Mary Scott Doe, a fictitious embryo produced by in vitro fertilization and then frozen and put into storage.
via Pandagon
If they can sue on behalf of a ficitious embryo, can I sue on behalf of unicorns, goblins and trolls? Every time a scientist works on stem cells a unicorn dies, you know...
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Date: 2005-08-08 04:43 pm (UTC)I already know the answer to this. I just hope the judge throws it out and makes these idiots pay court costs for wasting scarce judicial resources.
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Date: 2005-08-08 04:51 pm (UTC)Hell, if I were the institute I'd countersue for every single day the funding was held up by these morons. And did you love the subtle dig at the NAACP via the name?
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Date: 2005-08-08 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-08 04:54 pm (UTC)Make that an icon. NOW.
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Date: 2005-08-08 04:56 pm (UTC)My GOD, the stupid. It burnses.
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Date: 2005-08-08 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-08 05:04 pm (UTC)If I can find an appropriate unicorn image tonight I just might.
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Date: 2005-08-08 11:56 pm (UTC)A national anti-abortion group yesterday served the administrators of California's fertility clinics with a federal lawsuit seeking to stop their work on the grounds that the civil rights of frozen embryos are violated by assisted reproduction.
And in another parallel universe...
Cthulhu said, "Mmmm! Popsicles!"