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Thread #63369   Message #1028262
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Oct-03 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: No 'right to choose' this...
Subject: BS: No 'right to choose' this...
The case reported here Women lose right to use their 'own' embryos seems to me as grotesque a decision as a court could make.

Essentially what is happening here is equivalent to a situation where a women was forced to have an abortion because the father of the child had second thoughts. And this is justified on the grounds that it is the expressioin of a "right to choose".

And I see the judge is quoted as saying that "The men were also deserving of sympathy and any criticism of their motives was unfair".

If anything is more grotesque than the judgement, I'd say that comment is.