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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    WTAF???
    I got a law degree and I'm willing to use it.

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  • ladymuck
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    WTAF???

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  • SueEllen
    started a topic How low can you go

    How low can you go

    Only in the USA do they dig out their slavery laws...

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...bryos-property

    Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel”, a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th-century law governing the treatment of enslaved people.
    The preliminary opinion by a Fairfax county circuit court judge, Richard Gardiner, which he delivered in a long-running dispute between a divorced husband and wife, is being criticized by some for wrongly and unnecessarily delving into a time in Virginia history when it was legal to own human beings.

    “It’s repulsive and it’s morally repugnant,” said Susan Crockin, a lawyer and scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an expert in reproductive technology law.

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