A Maryland lawyer has filed a lawsuit representing Mary Scott Doe, an unborn embryo, against Robert Klein, chairman of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state-run $3 billion stem cell research funding agency.
Martin Palmer, a trial lawyer in Hagerstown, Maryland, and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children (NAAPC, get it? The website goes to a placeholder as of Friday afternoon), has also represented several men in paternal rights cases involving unborn embryos.
Kristen Philipkosk stated that the website for NAAPC was a place holder at the time the Wired article was written, but it appears it's now come on line at www.naapc.net. I took a look at the 46 page complaint, one part to share that will give you an idea of the tone of the complaint:
PARTIES
4. Plaintiff Mary Scott Doe is a human embryo “born,” i.e., produced or
brought into life, in one of the states of the United States, including the state of
California, by the new science of in vitro (Latin for “in glass”) fertilization,
whereby the process of fertilization, which produces or brings her into life, takes
place not in a tube of flesh (the fallopian tube) but in a tube of glass (the test
tube), after which life for her has been presently suspended by the freezing of
Mary Doe in liquid nitrogen (cryo-preservation) and from which she may be
thawed and gently returned to the warmth of life and placed for human embryo
adoption so that she may fulfill her destiny as a fully developed human life or, in
the alternative, she may be coveted and enslaved for human embryo vivisection
and experimentation, resulting in her certain death and destruction.
It will be interesting to see what happens...
3 comments:
Creepy actually.
I had to read the acronym about 3 times, how cute! I thought from the headline it would be about abortion, but I guess it is even more complex.
Well, it could force the discussion as to when the Courts believe that life exists from a standpoint to have rights.
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