• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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    Are unfertised human eggs a thing? Like, the chicken eggs we eat aren’t fertilised. I’m imagining something like an ostrich egg. Lots of omelette in that … um, definitely-not-a-baby.

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    7 hours ago

    People might not want to eat chicken eggs since they might look like smaller human eggs and that would be weird.

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      Maybe they would sell it in a more disconnected form. Cause like we eat veal even though that’s a baby. So maybe instead of eggs being sold in the shell they’d mostly be sold already cracked in a container or something.

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      Oviposition is already a thing, you can even get toys.

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    There would be so many weird egg posts on social media. Could you imagine how horrible “influencers” would be that do extravagant gender reveals if they had an egg to display?

    Also weird egg porn would be a thing which I preemptively find rather disturbing.

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    Would this mean that instead of periods, you just lay an unfertilised egg once a month? Do you have to constantly be hathing the egg? Are the eggs hard like bird eggs or soft like reptilian eggs?

    If the egg required constantly being there, I think that in our current society, that’d become the mother’s task. Some couples would take turns hatching it, like dad is with the egg until noon when he goes to work and the mom takes over. Conservatives would be losing their minds over fathers who hatch eggs because it’s ‘women’s work’.

    Rich people would first start hiring people to hatch their eggs for them, and probably soon move on to hatching machines. Later automated hatchers would become more and more common until only the very poor would hatch their eggs manually. Chances are that hatching your eggs by yourself would become a tradwife thing soon.

    There would probably be a huge debate over whether or not it is okay to eat human eggs. Eating the eggshells after the baby has hatched might become a thing, similar to how some people eat their placentas after giving birth.

    Abortion would become much easier and safer to do and really hard to restrict: just smash the egg and dispose of the evidence. In poor areas, there would probably be a lot of abandoned eggs; on a rainy night I hear the doorbell ringing. When I open the door, before me is an egg, gently wrapped in a floral blanket. I manage to catch a quick glimpse of a young woman’s silhouette running away before she disappears behind the corner

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Abortion would become much easier and safer to do and really hard to restrict: just smash the egg and dispose of the evidence.

      Its not even “Abortion” anymore, the definition of “Abortion” involves "pregnancy. This is not a “pregnancy” so its just called termination now

      And most women probably wouldn’t care what happens to the egg as long as paper abortion becomes legal (and if not, I absolutely see how some women would just smashing the egg and throw it out in the trash, or eat it, and I wont blame them. Paper Abortion should be legal, especially in this scenario.)

      And I think, since the “fetus” is now in the egg, some country’s laws might change to require both parents to consent before termination, since the mother is no longer at risk since they are no longer carrying it, and both parent have stakes in the egg.

      And those very patriarchal and conservative societies might make the father the only one with control over whether or not a egg gets terminated.

      (Also, Fun Fact: Egg abduction becomes a thing)

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Abortion issue is gone. Now the issue is paper abortion (aka: termination of parental rights and responsibilities).

    (I’m a supporter of both abortion rights and paper abortion)

    Btw: I’d be okay with the eggs being eaten as long as both parents give permission, and it happens before viability. Eggs cannot feel pain.

    🥚👶🍳🍽😋

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        When both parents do it, it’s putting them up for adoption. I think they’re talking about when only one does it.

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          Are both parents required to put them up for adoption? If a single mother or father puts the child up for adoption…its still adoption, no?

          So “paper abortion” is just slang for adoption?

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            Everyone with parental rights must consent to an adoption, so it’s not the same thing. Parental rights are either terminated or transferred (generally when both parents die at the same time) upon death, so people who are single parents due to the death of the other parent would be the only ones with parental rights. Otherwise the parental rights of the non participating parent have already been severed (though most of the time, they do still have some rights and maintain a financial responsibility, they’re just not doing the actual parenting, meaning they would also need to consent to put the child up for adoption).

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    Abortion is now called “Making an omelette”

    Also, if you think we are overly protective of pregnant mothers now, its gonna be worse when a minor bump causes the shell to crack.

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    Companies start selling incubator subscriptions and making massive profits; women (and men where applies) lose their rights to maternity leave.

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    Large, expensive in home incubators.

    How big are human eggs in this world? Real women’s bodies have to rearrange a lot to give birth.

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      Human eggs are about the largest single cell humans produce, about 0.1mm in diameter.

      But human eggs don’t provide nutrients to the fetus, they grow the placenta to do that. So over all the entire process would have to change to something probably impossible. Consider the ostrich lays the largest egg now, and ostriches are larger than humans. Humans that would need a far larger egg.

      The math just doesn’t work for humans to have a hard shell egg.

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        You are right in your final statement about the hard shell, and the size ratio, but that doesn’t make it completely impossible. Egg laying could work for humans if the shell was leathery and flexible, like that of some reptiles.

        Humans could lay an egg large enough to hold a newborn, and since at the time of laying the insides of the egg would be mostly still liquid, a flexible shell would work out just fine for passage. Then the baby would develop inside the egg. Just like with birds.

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          The egg could also harden gradually when exposed to air, as the vagina is acidic. Especially if fertilization occurs outside the body, like with amphibians and fish. Of course, there would need to be a liquid medium, but that could also be released with the egg.