In a theology-heavy ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court will allow a couple to sue for the "wrongful death" of their frozen embryos obtained through IVF.

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

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    24·
    9 months ago

    Nobody actually believes this bullshit. Anyone who was forced to choose between saving a toddler and a canister containing 1000 human embryos, would choose the toddler.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      14·
      9 months ago

      That’s how you know their argument is false. Literally no one would waver between saving an actual baby and an embryo. Even if it was a billion embryos (not sure how that would happen), the baby would be saved first. Even if it was your embryo, you would save a random baby first (unless you’re a sociopath).

      People are just hardwired to care about babies, not cells. That’s why the “pro-life” pamphlets and signs have actual babies on them. People care about born children more.

      • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        Even if it was your embryo, you would save a random baby first (unless you’re a sociopath).

        What if that baby was Hitler? Checkmate, atheists!