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Comment Re:Close to owning (Score 1) 374

reproductive decisions are joint up to the point of fertilising the egg. After that point, I think that it is reasonable to hold the blanket belief that the woman is the residual claimant of all remaining reproductive aspects.

Comment Re:Close to owning (Score 2) 374

He chose to pay child care when he fertilised the egg. It's like signing a contract.

The matter would have been entirely different had unfertilised eggs and his sperm been frozen separately.

Comment Re:Close to owning (Score 1) 374

Doesn't makes sense to be honest.

Let's take an extreme hypothetical. Sometime in the future an egg is fertilised outside a woman's body and grows for 8 1/2 months in a "test-tube" following the kind of growth patterns we know happens in the womb.

Someone comes along and chucks the tube in a bin killing the foetus. Should we charge him with murder. My answer is yes sure.

Similarly, the frozen fertilised egg in the fridge is as much a part of the woman's body as if it were in her womb. She can do as she pleases with it. It's her body and no one else's

Submission + - Ham Radio Fills Communication Gaps in Nepal Rescue Effort (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: Amateur radio has stepped in to fill communication gaps in Nepal, which is struggling with power outages and a flaky Internet after a devastating earthquake on Saturday killed over 5,000 people. Though 99 persons have ham licenses in Kathmandu, about eight use high-frequency (HF) radios that can transmit long distances, while another 30 have very high frequency and ultra high frequency sets for local traffic, said Satish Kharel, a lawyer in Kathmandu, who uses the ham call signal 9N1AA. The hobbyist radio operators are working round-the-clock to help people get in touch with relatives, pass on information and alert about developing crises.

Comment Re:Close to owning (Score 1) 374

Ethically eggs whether fertilised or unfertilised whether in the woman or outside is part of the woman's body. She has exclusive rights to do as she pleases with them regardless of the desires and opinion of the man who fertilised the eggs or paid to remove and incubate the eggs.

So the woman should equal able to implant, store, or toss the eggs into a bin. Just as she has the moral right when they are inside her to do as she pleases with the eggs (the pill, abort). It's her body regardless of any scientific innovation allowing part of her body to survive for brief periods in a test-tube in a fridge.

Men's rights to sperm really never plays a role here.

Comment Re:Close to owning (Score 1) 374

You're right, on second thought.

Basically, the fertilised egg ought to be seen as being part of the woman's body if it's inside the womb or outside. So it's her choice to do whatever she wants with it. The woman owns it.

Submission + - Windows XP support deal not renewed by government, leaves PCs open to attack (v3.co.uk)

girlmad writes: The government's one-year £5.5m Windows XP support deal with Microsoft has not been extended, sources have told V3, despite thousands of computers across Whitehall still running the ancient software, leaving them wide open to cyber attacks. It's still unclear when all government machines will be migrated to a newer OS.

Submission + - Progress M-27M cargo mission to ISS out of control

quippe writes: Many sources report that the Russian spacecraft, launched successfully from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier Tuesday, is in big trouble now after having a glitch shortly after liftoff. There is a video on youtube (credit: NASA) of the space ship spinning on itself, it doesn't look any good. Current speculation points to a bigger than expected lift by the third-stage, based on the fact that apogee is 20km higher than planned. It seems it is not posing any threat to the ISS at the moment.

Submission + - iPad fail grounds dozens of American Airline flights

infolation writes: American Airlines was forced to delay multiple flights on Tuesday night after the iPad app used by pilots crashed. Introduced in 2013, the cockpit iPads are used as an “electronic flight bag”, replacing 16kg (35lb) of paper manuals which pilots are typically required to carry on flights. In some cases, the flights had to return to the gate to access Wi-Fi to fix the issue.

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