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Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism

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.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      211·
      4 months ago

      And let them keep enslaving innocent people?

      Should’ve done something with the south alright, but it’s not letting them go.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        25·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 months ago

          Fun fact, after the famous March to the Sea, Sherman headed back north, cutting an equally destructive path through South Carolina.

      • Comrade GitGud@lemmy.ml
        104·
        4 months ago

        Shouldn’t have let the confederate leadership go on living after the war. Arguments can be made for average soldiers since many were drafted against their wills and/or propagandized into their beliefs, but an example needed to be made of the leaders and it wasn’t.

        “Oh, you want to break away from the country in order to keep slavery going? Well please stand in front of that brick wall over there. Runner-up trophies will be distributed imminently and in an orderly fashion. Here’s your blindfold because we’d like it to be a surprise. Would you like a cigarette while you wait?”

        • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
          72·
          4 months ago

          Now now let’s be nice. You might get banned for violence for saying maybe we should punch Nazis even though they constantly ask for the literal death of others!