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solanaceous , to U.S. News in Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits

Or just let the mother-to-be charge her insurance at hospital rates for all the blood transfusions and other health care she’s giving the fetus.

(As a bit of completely unwarranted pedantry — and I’m not a lawyer — most crimes in the US and other common law countries have a mental component (mens rea). This means that e.g. to be guilty of manslaughter you must have chosen to do something willfully harmful or at least unacceptably dangerous, such as attacking someone or driving drunk. So fetuses and babies cannot be guilty of those crimes. Of course, the “charge your insurance” thing probably doesn’t work either.)

solanaceous , to U.S. News in Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water | CNN

People do build water control megaprojects to route (canals, aqueducts) and store freshwater (dams and reservoirs) and to prevent flooding (levees, dikes, etc). Cross-country aqueducts are just hugely expensive and generally don’t move enough water to be worthwhile.

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