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 Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:45 pm
In the devestation, panic, and even violence of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, seven Illinois Conservation Police officers and three Louisiana state troopers managed to find the time to rescue over 1,400 embryos from a fertility clinic. It's a shame what those poor black and white trash folks had to go through, really, but they had to save the l'il embryos, you see. *insert "banging head on wall" icon here* Read more: MSNBC, Feministe
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:12 pm
******** sad. The poverty stricken were left to die, or crushed together and left without food or supplies for days, and for weeks without temporary homes or money... But the preshush wittle thinking feeling single-celled baaaybeees are safe! Oh thank GOD the POTENTIAL babies are safe while the BORN babies are DYING! rolleyes
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:46 pm
stare I'm really glad they're happy, but......
Yeah.
WAIT!!! Aren't those people GOVERNMENT people? Why aren't they trying to save the woman that's drowning on her rooftop, the kid that's dying from overcrowding, that man over there that's been seriously injured but can't be lifted out 'cause THERE AIN'T ENOUGH PERSONNEL?
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:21 pm
rolleyes So~ They going to find people who are willing to take all those embryos?
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:55 pm
Good ******** god. This just reminds me, overall, how (badly) selfish people can be when it comes to procreation. "Hey, thousands of people died, but our embryos were saved and now we're going to have a precious wittle baby! Isn't that wonderful?"
People need new priorities.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:15 pm
Here's some irony...
they won't take that same time to save all of the "white trash and poor blacks" demographic, BUT
... the embryos came from the same "white trash and poor black" group!
What's REALLY going on here?
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:48 pm
Actually...
I heard from a show (Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.) on Oxygen (women's television network) that a session of in-vitro fertilization typically costs around 10,000 dollars. (and has a 70% failure rate!)
At that price, these embryos probably did not come from poor people. They came from the wealthy.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:19 pm
It's not that it's the embryos, but the people who did it-
I wouldn't care if it were a private organization- they have rights to do what the hell they want.
But the police? And state troopers?
GOVERNMENT WORKERS, DUDE!!
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:42 pm
PhaedraMcSpiffy Actually... I heard from a show (Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.) on Oxygen (women's television network) that a session of in-vitro fertilization typically costs around 10,000 dollars. (and has a 70% failure rate!) At that price, these embryos probably did not come from poor people. They came from the wealthy. Yeah, the MSNBC article estimated the one woman's pregnancy from in-vintro at around $12,000. Definitely at least upper-middle class. ..Le Chat du Noir.. It's not that it's the embryos, but the people who did it- I wouldn't care if it were a private organization- they have rights to do what the hell they want. But the police? And state troopers? GOVERNMENT WORKERS, DUDE!! True. They hospital had already taken some precautions to ensure the safety of the embryos, so if some staff or something had saved that them, whatever. But those officers could have -- and should have -- been rescuing the others who were already alive and in real danger.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:00 pm
Pandora Box True. They hospital had already taken some precautions to ensure the safety of the embryos, so if some staff or something had saved that them, whatever. But those officers could have -- and should have -- been rescuing the others who were already alive and in real danger.YEAH!!! That's what I'm trying to say, but it's so--- So.. UGH~!!!!!! GABABABAHHH AHHH!! Okay, funny loud noises aside, the main point is that the government is not some private nonprofit organization or just some guards that happened to drop by- does it seriously take just a flick of a switch to go through all that effort, entering an abandoned facility and- the articles said that the nitrogen tanks were huge. How many real people coulda been saved...
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:16 pm
WAITTT!!!!!Quote: Two days before Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005, the clinic took steps to protect the embryos by topping off all its tanks with liquid nitrogen and moving them to the third floor.But Katrina’s eight feet of water knocked out the electricity, and the temperature climbed. A freshly topped-off tank is safe for three to four weeks in an air-conditioned room, but “I’m sure the temperature was over 100 degrees in that hospital,” Dr. Belinda “Sissy” Sartor, a fertility expert for the institute.Fearing the embryos would be ruined, she contacted a state lawmaker, who called Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and on Sept. 11, Illinois officers on loan to Louisiana set out in National Guard trucks, towing flat-bottomed boats. A flat surface was essential: The 35- and 40-liter nitrogen tanks, which weigh 75 and 90 pounds, had to stay upright. If one tipped over, the nitrogen would spill.Nitrogen's boiling point (When it disappears into a gas) is -195.8°C. Liquid Nitrogen is processed a bit, so it doesn't vaporize as quick. But.... If the embryos are fine now, then... THEY WERE FINE THE ENTIRE TIME, DAMMIT!
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:05 pm
Grip of Death Here's some irony... they won't take that same time to save all of the "white trash and poor blacks" demographic, BUT ... the embryos came from the same "white trash and poor black" group! What's REALLY going on here? Please explain how the 'white trash and poor black' people can afford IVF treatment.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:18 am
MipsyKitten Grip of Death Here's some irony... they won't take that same time to save all of the "white trash and poor blacks" demographic, BUT ... the embryos came from the same "white trash and poor black" group! What's REALLY going on here? Please explain how the 'white trash and poor black' people can afford IVF treatment. I thought that poor people could supplement their income by squirting sperm in a cup, or some select poor (but healthy genetics, physically attractive) women donate an egg. Shrugs. I was thinking something different.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:18 pm
“It’s going to be exciting for the little baby, once he gets old enough to realize what it went through,”
......ooo-kay.
/speechless
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:23 pm
... exciting on top of surviving the typical 70% failure rate that this method of fertilization goes through rofl
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