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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

Author:     Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Source:     The New Republic
Publication Date:     February 19, 2024 | 9:19 a.m. ET
 Link: Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling
Stephan:  

One to two percent of women need in vitro fertilization in order to begin a family. But that help will no longer be available in Alabama. The state is controlled by Republicans because the people in Alabama who can and do vote, vote for what this state has become. By every fact-based social outcome study Alabama is essentially a third-world country.  It is poor — ranks 46th in the nation, highly racist — ranks 44th, has poor health care overall — ranks 42nd, and on and on. There is no fundamental reason Alabama should have such low rankings, it is the result of its culture and the choices made by its state government, and nothing is going to change this but the voters. Do they care enough to change the social failure Alabama has become? We’ll see in November.

Alabama statehouse Credit: Raymond Boyd / Getty

A new ruling out of Alabama may spell the beginning of the end of the third-party fertility industry—and its reasoning partially relies on a verse from the Bible.

On Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court decided that embryos created through in-vitro fertilization would be protected under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, effectively classifying single-celled, fertilized eggs as children. 

The case, known as LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc, rested upon an argument by several intended parents that their “embryonic children” had been victims of a wrongful death when an intruder broke into the IVF clinic, dropping trays containing some of the embryos and ultimately destroying them.

In a 7–2 decision, Alabama’s highest court ruled that the clinic had been negligent, allowing the parents to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit. The court also ruled that it is “the public policy of this state to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life,” (emphasis added) […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 5:26 am

    The Citizens of Alabama will have to live with the law of natural consequences. It’s not pretty, but it is very effective at teaching that choices have effects, both intended and unintended. Both can be powerful.