In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were destroyed in a mishap at a fertility clinic, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law. As a result, Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.
The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives — not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).
All of these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America’s fundamental separation of church and state.
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I’ve been saying vote Democrat for the last couple of years! Just witnessing what took place during Trump’s “reign” and listening to the rhetoric should be enough for the average American who values what the US has should have been enough to dump his ilk. They did in 2020 and he’s only worse now because his main concern is staying out of jail. But he has nurtured the worst kind of person who only wants vengeance and really hates the America we have. We must vote Democratic to get the “normal order” back! Terri Quint