Commodifying Human Life

Human life is increasingly commodified, and nascent human beings treated as mere objects and chattel. We see this in the efforts to perfect human cloning techniques, embryos manufactured as an experiment, and in the increasingly profitable surrogacy industry.

Now we see it in a California court ruling enforcing a contract to destroy frozen embryos in the event of a divorce. From the San Francisco Chronicle story:

A judge ruled Wednesday that the frozen embryos of a divorced San Francisco cou...