Dumbass law

So did anyone else hear the news that North Dakota has passed a new bill wherein any "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens" is considered to be a person, protected by all state laws and rights. The idea behind it is that this way a fetus is now considered to be a person, obviously making the legality of abortions a big question now. Now ignoring the fact that a fetus really isn't a person, George Carlin had a pretty good explanation of the difference between a person and a fetus, there is a serious problem with this new bill.

See, though the legislators probably thought that they were being all smart by using the term "human genome" to define a fetus, there's a slight problem with that definition. It is inherently broad and in fact undefined. See, the question becomes, what is the exact human genome? We all have our own genome with some variations, so the definition of the human genome really depends on perspective. So, where is the line drawn?

Ok, so maybe that line is easy to draw, but when you think of it, the genetic sequence of fetus is only 50% that of the woman. So the genetic sequence is rather different from that of the mother. Now, the law will protect the right of the fetus to live and prosper. But what if you have cancer? Cancer is in fact your own genome , just with a slight mutation that causes the problems; which would be far far less than a 0.01% difference in the genome. In fact, cancer has a more similar genome to that of a woman than the genome of her child. So, by extension, the law that is designed to protect a fetus even should protect cancer, as it is an organism with a human genome. So are cancer treatments going to be outlawed in North Dakota as well?

Somehow I don't think that the politicians are going to be applying this law to it's letter, only in it's spirit, which is to limit individuals rights for religious reasons.