Children in mind, not law
On embryos, personhood, and the way forward
In an opening scene in an episode from the final season of Girls, Hannah – who has recently discovered she is pregnant – peers at a lentil on the tip of her forefinger. The next shot reveals her open laptop, and a Google results page explaining that this lentil is the same size as the embryo currently developing inside of her.
This scene came to mind, fo…