Yes, I agree.Its an interesting case. On one hand I get why the parents are seeking damages due to mishandling of genetic material. I know a little bit about the IVF process. Only so many viable eggs can be collected per process and of those only so many might produce viable embryos. To the prospective parent/s who cant get pregnant any other
way the loss of such material would be emotionally devastating. Not to mention financially costly.
But on the other hand, such embryos just aren't children. They're seeds at that stage. Considering them as children with a human right to life is plain wrong.
It's a complex case and the justices were addressing a civil case where a patient entered the cryogenic nursery where the embryos were kept, took several out of storage and dropped them on the floor, killing them. I'm not sure what happened to the perpetrator. The plaintiffs sued the clinic where the embryos were created under a 150-year-old statute that allows parents to seek punitive damages “when the death of [their] minor child is caused by the wrongful act, omission, or negligence of any person." To succeed the Plaintiffs had to have the Justices rule that the embryo's were people. And they did. Then the law on unintended consequences quicked in......