Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic, the Alabama supreme court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law.
As a result, several 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 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 basic separation of church and state.
Should have let the South go when we had the chance.
And let them keep enslaving innocent people?
Should’ve done something with the south alright, but it’s not letting them go.
When Sherman got to the ocean we should have just pointed him in another direction and let him bounce around the South for a while. Like one big Confederate-cleansing Roomba.
Fun fact, after the famous March to the Sea, Sherman headed back north, cutting an equally destructive path through South Carolina.
Rename it “lower north”