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A court battle between a divorced couple over the future of their frozen embryos began Monday with an attorney for the former husband accusing the woman of using the dispute to get money.
Dr. Mimi Lee, 46, a pianist and part-time anesthesiologist, married Stephen Findley, a wealthy executive, five years ago. Shortly before the wedding, Lee learned she had breast cancer.
Unsure whether the disease would make it impossible for her to have children, the couple went to a fertility center, where Lee's eggs and Findley's sperm created five embryos, now frozen.
Findley filed for divorce two years ago and wants the embryos destroyed. Lee, now infertile, wants to implant the embryos into a surrogate and have a baby. Without the embryos, she will never have a child who shares her genes.
If the embryos are implanted and carry to term, the ex-husband becomes a father without consent. If the embryos are destroyed, the ex-wife is denied the deep need to procreate. The embryos themselves have issues either way. Modern biomedical ethics are complex.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @08:47AM
>2015
>not knowing about "sperm liability"
These are dangerous times for men.
Women are ever increasingly viewing men as walking ATM's.
Women are now using rape accusations to summon the power of the government against unruly and undesirable men.
Any voice against this insanity is met with cries of "misogynist" or "patriarchy".
Normal women don't fight it because what do they care? They aren't men. They just keep getting more and more power.
Normal men don't fight it because their too driven by succubi.
I've said it for years now, Japan and Korea are decades ahead of the west when it comes to "social progress".
In both countries you see declining birthrates caused by overly picky women who only want to marry and procreate with the top 1% of men.
Haven't you noticed the falling birthrates in the US?
Women have been given the civilized world, and they're running it into the ground with feel good policies driven by gynocentric ideals.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaganar on Thursday July 16 2015, @03:33PM
Back in the 60's women's median earnings were generally just under 60% of that of men. Now it's nearing 80%. That goes from men "making nearly twice as much" to "making a quarter more" -- big difference. (See here [pay-equity.org])
That's been done for decades, nothing new here. Shocking proportions of women (Google it for yourself, you'll pull numbers well above 10%) have also been raped for decades, nothing new here. As a guy, I think I'm on the better end of the bargain since I'm less likely to be accused of rape or raped than women are likely to be raped.
I'm going to go with "childish" here. Looking up statistics on this sort of stuff has landed me on many alarmist "news for the masculine hetero male" type of websites which all amusingly sound like the male equivalents of feminists. Frankly, I find most (not all) strong feminists (and manimists?) to be excess noise, just like I find most strong republicans or democrats to be excess noise -- I prefer to experience my fictional dramas via books.
You have a very strange definition [wikipedia.org] of social progress. No, I rather think Japan (and Korea) have more (and definitely not socially progressive) issues than "women don't want to have babies with scrubs and wankers." Honestly, your viewpoint here is rather alien to me -- is the problem that you're worried we won't be able to out-fuck the other countries anymore? Let me tell you, we better look out for those impoverished African countries [wikipedia.org], then!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @04:16PM
That's been done for decades, nothing new here. Shocking proportions of women (Google it for yourself, you'll pull numbers well above 10%) have also been raped for decades, nothing new here.
How can they verify that the rapes took place with no actual evidence? In many cases, there are no court cases (thus no convictions), and there are no real standards of evidence. Different definitions of "rape" are sometimes used, depending on the sources. So while rape rates are almost certainly higher than the official government sources state (because people will get away with crimes), determining how high they actually are is next to impossible unless you make unscientific assumptions.
As a guy, I think I'm on the better end of the bargain since I'm less likely to be accused of rape or raped than women are likely to be raped.
"Better" does not mean "good".