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Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, imperiling IVF
OK, this is one of the whackier rulings to come out of a state supreme court.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them, a decision that reproductive rights advocates say could imperil in vitro fertilization (IVF) and affect the hundreds of thousands of patients who depend on treatments like it each year.
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The Alabama case focused on whether a patient who mistakenly dropped and destroyed other couples’ frozen embryos could be held liable in a wrongful-death lawsuit. The court ruled the patient could, writing that it had long held that “unborn children are ‘children’” and that that was also true for frozen embryos, affording the fertilized eggs the same protection as babies under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
And here is the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court taking the decision way out to far right whacko land:
In a concurring opinion that echoed that view but drew criticism, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker quoted the Bible as he examined the “sanctity of unborn life.”
“Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself,” Parker wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”
Let us recall... THIS is the atheist board. Whatever happened to separation of church and state?
From comments on the article:
This just in, frozen embryos in Alabama are now being issued concealed carry permits. But they shouldn't be required to have a permit!
