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February 23, 2024
The judgment is plainly unconstitutional, however do not anticipate the Supreme Court to come to the rescue.
Tom Parker, primary justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, composed a concurring viewpoint in the event Burdick-Aysenne v. Center for Reproductive Medicinethe current judgment that raised frozen human embryos to the status of kids for the function of wrongful death suits, threatening to end in vitro fertilization in Alabama. In his viewpoint, Parker composed: “Human life can not be wrongfully ruined without sustaining the rage of a holy God, who sees the damage of His image as an affront to Himself. [Alabama’s Sanctity of Life statute] acknowledges that this holds true of coming human life no less than it is of all other human life– that even before birth, all people bear the image of God, and their lives can not be damaged without effacing his magnificence.”
The word “God” appears 41 times in Parker’s viewpoint, which likewise freely prices quote from the Bible, particularly the Book of Genesis, and theologians like Thomas Aquinus and John Calvin. In an interviewParker stated he supports the”7 Mountain Mandate,” which is a code for enforcing Christian guideline based upon scriptural precepts on the rest of society.
Folks, this is the primary justice of a state supreme court, and he is clearly conjuring up fundamentalist Christian ideology to validate designating legal liability and punitive damages to individuals who contravene of Christian orthodoxy.
The legal ramifications of raising a cellular ice to the status of a born-alive kid are badAs Rewire‘s Jessica Mason Pieklo describesthere is a direct line from the court stating (as the Alabama court did) that you can’t “damage” a frozen embryo to requiring ladies to implant any embryos they assist produce (which is most likely what’s following). And by offering complete personhood rights to a collection of cells, the attack on IVF can likely be utilized to even more limit abortion rights and reproductive health care, even in cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mom is at danger. The judgment likewise successfully limits the choices LGBTQ couples need to begin a household. The choice came out on Friday, and less than a week later on 2 Alabama centersconsisting of the state’s biggest health centerhave actually stopped using IVF since they can not presume the legal liability that might develop from disposing of the unused, undesirable embryos IVF treatments produce.
The legal concerns raised by embryonic anthropomorphization are legion, and highlight the moronic reasoning of the Alabama court. Do the icicle infants get a Social Security number? Can their moms count them as dependents on their ta