Frozen embryos are "children" in Alabama

Nor am I. If you look at it in a musical sense, Texas has several universes' worth of musical culture within its borders, things like Tex-Mex, for instance - and Norteño, borrowed from Mexico, conjunto, and Moravian settler-influenced accordion music... it goes on and on. I guess this CAN be considered "Deep South" - but Louisiana has music you don't find elsewhere (except when it spills over the border to Texas.) Cajun, Zydeco, Brass Bands, (of a sort you don't hear in the North) Swamp-Pop, Swamp Blues. ... etc. etc.

Tennessee probably has as large a number of music varieties as any state. It's certainly had a lot of unique musicians. But most of the music is not unique to "The Volunteer State."

 

And if you're looking for unique forms of music, these don't stay strictly within any one State's boundaries, but what about the different forms of Native American Music, past and present?

 

I forgot to mention Western Swing - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Texas Playboys - with Jimmy Wyble on guitar. Best double-note harmony player around. Bar none. Yep. Western Swing is important. And pure pleasure. Cultural treasure.? Hell yeah!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wyble

 

Since they are not yet age 18, they can't vote. But do they get to have a Social Security number and be claimed on their parents' taxes? And if they are not enrolled in school within 6-7 years after their conception, will the Department of Child Protection Services (Alabama equivalent) come looking for them or their parents? Can they now join an Embryo Division of Little League?

 

Isn't detaining a citizen in freezing conditions without due process a violation of their Constitutional rights?

In America, if you need a uterus, you have lots of rights. If you have a uterus, you have none.

(As George Carlin once said, if they can take them away, they're not rights; they're privileges.)

 

As a nod to George Carlin, this country was FOUNDED on privileges rather than rights.

 

If it weren't for the stupid and needless cruelty toward women, the sight of all those MAGA Republicans in the Alabama Legislature squirming in the very trap they themselves set would be mildly entertaining.

 

But it is.

 

Incidently, despite the best efforts of the Religious Right, "extra uterine children" are citizens neither of the United States nor of the State of Alabama. The 14th Amendment defines citizenship and is the exclusive authority on the subject.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

 

Entertaining? Well, maybe a little.

 

When we're able to bring an embryo to become a human being without the use of a host uterus, that might need to be updated.

My comment about an embryo's Constitutional rights was meant as satire to illustrate the absurd position those people in Alabama are in.

 

Dogpatch. Sen. Jack S. Phogbound & Co. The Yokums et. al weren't very bright, but somehow, they didn't lack decency. These "Make Alabama Great Again" supposedly "religious" folks - Блять (Multi-purpose Russian vulgarity.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner

"I'm a genuine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this mornin'!" Robert Duvall, as preacher, "Sonny" in "The Apostle," 1997

 

I believe that was clear to everyone.

 

Except perhaps the Alabama Supreme Court.

 

You may never know what they consider children in Alabama! Be thankful it's not West Virginia!

 

Oh, but someday it will be...

 

Alabama legislators of both parties are pushing a bill that gives immunity to doctors doing IVF. Okay, wait until they find out that sometimes the doctors implant several embryos and "cull" (abort) all but the most promising. In short, the proposed bill would license abortions. The Religious Right will go ballistic.

Anyway it's all Biden's fault.

 

Just repeat that on Fox a few dozen times a day and then millions will believe it. Oh wait, that's already happening and so millions already do believe it.