Alabama Rules That Frozen Embryos Are 'Children'

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Alabama Rules That Frozen Embryos Are 'Children'
huffpost.com

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are children, which pro-choice rights groups have warned could have dangerous implications for fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which a couple sued an Alabama fertility clinic and hospital for the “wrongful death” of their frozen embryos in a ruling that was riddled with theology. The couple’s frozen embryos were destroyed after a hospital patient who accessed the freezer that held the embryos dropped them on the floor. The ruling means that the couple can sue for wrongful death.

This should end well. /s

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Because you don’t want the children to die in YOUR care. That was an easy question.

Then just scoop a few more out, they can't tell the difference

I feel like a state that tries to regulate embryos are going to heavily control the action of “scooping a few more out”

Just pop a couple states over, you can afford it with all the money you're saving on taxes