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Alabama IVF ruling

Posted on 2/21/24 at 3:22 pm
Posted by hawkeye007
Member since Feb 2010
5915 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 3:22 pm
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I really don't understand what Alabama is trying to do here. IVF has helped millions of couples have children and now Alabama wants to classify embryo's as children. Meaning frozen embryo's that are not used and destroyed could cause parents and medical facilities to me charged with man slaughter. What am I missing here or did Alabama just really go off rails here.
Posted by Sput
Member since Mar 2020
8179 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 3:25 pm to
All comes down to if you believe life begins at conception. Can’t say it does in a “natural ” situation but doesn’t here
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
14857 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 3:32 pm to
So does this mean unused embryos will have to be stored for eternity or will the State seize them and implant them in someone else? If a lab tech drops an embryo container can they be charged with negligent homicide? Would an inheritance now have to be split between all children and however many embryos the parents still had frozen?

This ruling essentially made the state responsible for an untold number of frozen embryos in the future.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 3:44 pm
Posted by hubertcumberdale
Member since Nov 2009
6617 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:10 pm to
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I really don't understand what Alabama is trying to do here. IVF has helped millions of couples have children and now Alabama wants to classify embryo's as children. Meaning frozen embryo's that are not used and destroyed could cause parents and medical facilities to me charged with man slaughter. What am I missing here or did Alabama just really go off rails here.


Next, Alabama will ban hospitals bc they are interfering with God's plan
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
11958 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:35 pm to
Fewer Alabamans is the only bright side to this. It’s a shame the evangelicals want to prevent people from having kids.
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
111802 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 4:59 pm to
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Meaning frozen embryo's that are not used and destroyed could cause parents and medical facilities to me charged with man slaughter.


Bzzzt.

You tried.

Sell your baby killing justifications somewhere else.
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
27461 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:02 pm to
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I really don't understand what Alabama is trying to do here.

It is bad public policy, plain and simple.
Posted by AndyCBR
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2012
7579 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:08 pm to
Discussed at length the other day.

Tigerdroppings
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6--Brazos River Backwater
Member since Sep 2015
26512 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:08 pm to
This is sick. Alabama has got to be the most backward state in history.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91239 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:26 pm to
Unfortunately it seems more and more people have to use IVF and other methods these days.

Everyone I know it seems had trouble conceiving the natural way. And a lot who were successful with pregnancy the natural way had miscarriages. I dunno why that is, but seems more common these days. Alabama law is dumb
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
51135 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:11 pm to
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Was the original thread going so poorly for people making your argument that you felt compelled to start a new thread in an effort to salvage your nonsensical opinions on this matter?
Posted by RFK
Squire Creek
Member since May 2012
1438 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:11 pm to
This is a classic case of what happens when you have identity politicians instead of trained lawyers making laws.

Reminds me of the vote to “make the right to bear arms a fundamental right” cir. 2012. Only after it passed did the right wingers realize that made it harder to deprive convicted felons of the right to buy firearms after they get out of prison.

Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63753 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:30 pm to
This is a horrible decision that could have a tragic consequences for couples trying to have a family.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
124712 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:36 pm to
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I really don't understand what Alabama is trying to do here
Our politicians on both sides align with positions rather than the associated possibilities. The anti-abortion position is humanness begins at fertilization.

Despite multiple cautionaries, including those on this site, human-at-fertilization is THE POSITION, period! Any position comes with consequences. An IVF accident is one of the consequences.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
12914 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:49 pm to
This is just accelerating idiocracy becoming real life. Poors can’t abort and the rich educated can’t get test tube babies anymore. Just more dummies coming soon to a city near you. Gonna be great. I’m glad I’ll be dead.
Posted by WildTchoupitoulas
Member since Jan 2010
44071 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:50 pm to
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Meaning frozen embryo's that are not used and destroyed could cause parents and medical facilities to me charged with man slaughter.

Hell, what's to stop the state from charging a woman who has miscarried with negligent homicide?
Posted by CrimsonFever
Gump Hard or Go Home
Member since Jul 2012
17957 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 6:54 pm to
It’s about time for me to move out of Alabama I think.
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
43700 posts
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:45 pm to
It’s an interesting ruling. Now if you are in a car accident or bump a pregnant lady that has a miscarriage you can be tried for manslaughter. If you can show product causes damage to fetus it’s a criminal and punitive damage case.

They looked at doing this in Mississippi but the chamber killed it because it scared them too much as it opens a whole can of worms.
Posted by GoblinGuide
Member since Nov 2017
1660 posts
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:17 am to
Does this mean that any frozen embryos kept in Alabama can be claimed as dependents during tax time?
Posted by Kang of Memphissippi
Memphissippi
Member since Sep 2023
561 posts
Posted on 2/22/24 at 9:46 am to
This is ridiculous

Throwing away IVF embryos isn’t murder. IVF “conceived” lifeforms aren’t real people.
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