This one is tricky. In this specific case, through mismanagement at an IVF clinic, frozen embryos were destroyed. I think the (prospective) parents in this situation have every right to sue the clinic. However, the way this law was written, and the way the court ruled, was way too broad and set a lot of potential harmful precedent. The law should absolutely be fixed, but I also think that parents in this situation need to be able to hold the clinic accountable. It gets really nuanced when you consider that IVF is still a developing science, life is very fragile at that scale, and not all embryos make it through the process just due to a myriad of reasons that the clinic can’t control. I don’t know the best way to write the law, but a good place to start would be to talk to doctors, rather than priests or politicians.
This one is tricky. In this specific case, through mismanagement at an IVF clinic, frozen embryos were destroyed. I think the (prospective) parents in this situation have every right to sue the clinic. However, the way this law was written, and the way the court ruled, was way too broad and set a lot of potential harmful precedent. The law should absolutely be fixed, but I also think that parents in this situation need to be able to hold the clinic accountable. It gets really nuanced when you consider that IVF is still a developing science, life is very fragile at that scale, and not all embryos make it through the process just due to a myriad of reasons that the clinic can’t control. I don’t know the best way to write the law, but a good place to start would be to talk to doctors, rather than priests or politicians.
It’s not tricky, it’s just a bad ruling. Off course the parents have a claim against the clinic, that doesn’t mean the embryos are people.