Roe Vs Wade Overturned

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This is...interesting.

https://www.al.com/politics/2024/02/biden-campaign-ties-alabama-supreme-court-ruling-frozen-embryos-are-children-to-trump-ending-roe-v-wade.html

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• Updated: Feb. 19, 2024, 3:22 p.m.|
• Published: Feb. 19, 2024, 3:16 p.m.
  

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• Howard Koplowitz | hkoplowitz@al.com
  

The Alabama Supreme Court ruling issued Friday determining frozen embryos are “children” was “made possible” by Donald Trump paving the way to end Roe v. Wade, the Biden campaign said.

“The Republican-appointed Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as ‘children,’ threatening access to IVF across the state,” the Biden-Harris campaign’s rapid response team said on social media.


“This is made possible by Donald Trump ending Roe v. Wade, which he calls a ‘miracle.’”





The Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are “children” in the cases of three couples suing a fertility clinic and a Mobile hospital after a hospital patient destroyed the specimens.


The couples sued for wrongful death. A Mobile County Circuit Court judge threw out the wrongful death claims after ruling the embryos were not people, but the Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ ruling to dismiss the case in 2022.


The Wrongful Death of a Minor Act “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location,” wrote Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell. “[T]he Wrongful Death of a Minor Act is sweeping and unqualified. It applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation. It is not the role of this Court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise public policy. That is especially true where, as here, the People of this State have adopted a Constitutional amendment directly aimed at stopping courts from excluding ‘unborn life’ from legal protection.”


The couples accused the defendants of wrongful death, negligence and breach of contract in two lawsuits filed in 2021 in Mobile County Circuit Court.


Mobile Infirmary “allowed one of its patients to leave and/or elope from his or her room in the Infirmary’s hospital area and access the cryogenic storage area,” according to one of the lawsuits.


The patient removed embryos from the freezer, and “it is believed that the cryopreservation’s subzero temperatures burned the eloping patient’s hands, causing him or her to drop the cryopreserved embryonic human beings on the floor, where they began to slowly die,” one of the filings stated.


By the time hospital staff noticed the incident, all of the embryos died, according to the lawsuits.


Trump appointed three U.S. Supreme Court justices -- Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett -- instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade.


The Alabama Supreme Court decision was hailed by Lila Rose, president and founder of the pro-life group Live Action.


”This decision made by the Alabama Supreme Court affirms the scientific reality that a new human life begins at the moment of fertilization,” Rose said. “Each person, from the tiniest embryo to an elder nearing the end of his life, has incalculable value that deserves and is guaranteed legal protection. This ruling, which involved a wrongful-death claim brought by parents against a fertility clinic that negligently caused the death of their children, rightly acknowledged the humanity of unborn children created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and is an important step towards applying equal protection for all.”


The National Fertility Association said the ruling was “anti-family.


“Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling is a terrifying development for the one in six people impacted by infertility who need in-vitro fertilization to build their families,” the association said in a statement.
“This anti-family ruling will likely have devastating consequences, including impacting the standard of care provided by the state’s five fertility clinics. This new legal framework may make it impossible to offer services like IVF, a standard medical treatment for infertility. It also remains unclear what this decision means for families who currently have embryos stored at these clinics.”


The association said the ruling has national ramifications.


”One thing is certain: this ruling has profound implications far beyond Alabama’s borders,” the group said. “Every American who wants or needs access to family-building options like IVF should be deeply concerned about this development and the precedent it will set across the country. RESOLVE will continue to be on the front lines protecting these options and ensuring everyone has the support and access to family building support they deserve.”