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IVF For a Terrorist?
I was reading up about Paris fashion week when I saw this blog post in the side menu and was curious. I'm not familiar with Eta - what are their politics?
Alpha Mummy:
October 07, 2008
IVF for a terrorist
An Eta terrorist, jailed for 13 years, has been released to receive IVF treatment, which is being paid for by the Spanish State. The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) has filed a formal complaint with the court, which has allowed Elena Beloki (pictured above, right) to remain out of jail on conditional bail after treatment.
Prosecutors maintained she could have received treatment while still in jail, yet to me the more basic question is the issue of the government funding fertility treatments for convicted criminals. By committing an act that is judged to be a crime in a court of law (Beloki was a spokeswoman for Xaki, the international arm of the banned Eta group), you give up your right to walk free in society. Your basic liberties are curtailed. Yet is IVF an inalienable right?
Certainly the state cannot stop natural pregnancy occurring - or at the least, sterilisation is no longer an acceptable practice. Yet does that translate into a prisoner's "right" to receive treatment if she can't conceive naturally? And does this extend to men - if a male prisoner can't naturally father a child, is he entitled to using all that modern medicine affords to become a dad?
Beloki was released in June, claiming that this treatment was her last chance to become pregnant. Her boyfriend is Juan Maria Olano, a jailed leader of Euskal Herritarrok, a banend group linked to Eta.
In 2003 a European court rejected an appeal by a British murderer to allow his wife to have artificial insemination while he remained in jail. In Beloki's case one wonders if the move to release her had more to do with the politics related to Eta than to the Spanish court's philosophies on the right to have a baby.
What do you think?
http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2008/10/ivf-for-a-terro.html
Re: IVF For a Terrorist?
I think I need to move to Spain and blow someshit up.
Edited to actually answer the question - I think ETA are a Basque separatist group. Here is a wiki of their attacks - gads, they're busy ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ETA_attacks
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Beloki was released in June, claiming that this treatment was her last chance to become pregnant.
I really think this woman should have thought of this before she engaged in criminal activity.