Even so, it is frightening how little the GOP Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court understand about human biology and development. Updated -- the University hospital at Birmingham has announced that it is "pausing" all IVF procedures in light of the below. So this is no longer a "theoretical" problem, Alabama. Damnation. End, updated portion.
I do not think many Americans would concur that a FROZEN clump of perhaps 500 cells. . . is a human, with all the rights of a human -- and should the IVF fail, the doctors (and "parents") might be charged with a "homicide".
That is lunacy, Alabama. Here's the bit of it:
. . .“This ruling is stating that a fertilized egg, which is a clump of cells, is now a person. It really puts into question, the practice of IVF,” Barbara Collura, CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, told The Associated Press Tuesday.
The group called the decision a “terrifying development for the 1-in-6 people impacted by infertility” who need in-vitro fertilization. . . .
This will ultimately reach the Supremes. It will be overturned -- and elected state level judges should leave science. . . to the scientists.
One may be compensated, where -- as here -- the embryos were negligently destroyed by a lab -- without having to decide that the clump of cells was a fully formed human being. In sum, this decision violates the rule of parsimony. Onward.
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