Couples race to move frozen embryos out of Alabama after court defines them as children

I guess soon, when you break-up with someone, the state might charge you with killing the idea of the children you might have had.

Alabama top selling item on Amazon right now:

Isn't it illegal to transport a child to commit a crime? Human trafficking? Kidnapping? What a can of worms. I feel like there's too much money in fertility treatments for SCOTUS to let this stand.

This is a travesty. These people are engaging in blatant and obvious child trafficking

Won't be long until Alabama considers miscarriage to be murder. Wait...that actually is already a thing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544

But wait... that means they can claim them as dependents right?

Tinder in certain states will put up an alert, warning you that if female, by proceeding with the date, you may be liable to carry a child to term, and if male, will need to pre-deposit child support in an escrow account.

The onion almost got me again.

Wait..

COUPLE ATTEMPTS TO SMUGGLE CHILDREN ACROSS STATE LINES

More at ten

I'm not messing with that soft paywall. Are they saying that parents who let their frozen embryos go bad in the freezer are guilty of murder or manslaughter?

If I were in Alabama I'd race to move out of Alabama

If those embryos count as children, wouldn't it be OK to ask for all kinds of legal benefits for them?

Sounds like transporting a minor across state lines

if a woman has a period and has had sex, there is a good chance a fertilized egg was probably somewhere around the blood, making every woman in Alabama who has had sex a possible serial killer

What kind of monster submerges their child in liquid nitrogen?

Think of the potential tax wind fall these people could have! I'd knuckle shuffle up some "kids" and rake in the tax money.

Sounds like human trafficking to me!

If a couple who has a frozen embryo divorces, who pays child support and for how long?

By that logic, women are committing murder every time they menstruate.

Maybe I missed something because the article is behind a paywall.

Edit: ok, as pointed out, I don’t know how these things work. I apologize, and accept all the downvotes and jabs you can give.

Shouldn't they do that with actual children as well? Just to be safe?

Isn't classifying a gamete, but only the female gamete (egg/ovum), and not the male gamete (sperm), of being "children" and has personhood rights, a form of sexist law. I know the Land of freedom is no rookie in taking away freedoms of the marginalized, almost the norm, but now they are taking away male gametes from being recognised as persons. Imagine in one ejaculation in Alabama and having a murder count similar to Stalin or Hitler. The court will show it was premeditated because the person bypassed state restrictions pulling out during copulation, the accused thus commited mass murder. This goes against Genesis 38 and it's Devine condemnation of coitus interruptus. Even the egg was unfertilized thus another death of a person was committed by the accused pullout game

wouldnt that be cross border smuggling/human trafficking?

I’d be taking my fetusicles and getting the hell out of dodge too, if I were in their shoes.

Dafuq going on ova der?

Probably time to remind everybody the Judiciary branch can't actually enforce its rulings. If they're going to go full on religious crazy we can just start ignoring them.

I was confused for a moment because the thumbnail looked like a Wendy's burger patty on a grill.

Anyone that's taken by surprise by this never lived in Alabama anyway.

Anybody else clicked on this because the thumbnail looked like a picture of a cheez-it and you were curious what cheez-its have to do with alabama & embryos?

im going to eat one

Isn't the fact that the parents are in Alabama the more relevant than where the egg is. If there is a record of who owns the egg on the premises of an Alabama provider wherein it may be seized by the Alabama authorities it may be used to demand of the provider or parents an accounting of the disposition of the egg. If it has been destroyed and the information regarding its destruction is available to the provider in state (which would be normal) they can still be charged. Inability to account for it is suspicious in itself and parents could be held in contempt and forced to disclose.

If I were the clinic I would simply claim on my taxes that I have around 100,000 dependents according to state law. Nothing will challenge their bullshit quicker than fucking with the money.

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What blows my mind about this ruling is these aren’t even fertilized embryos we’re talking about. This is the same as calling sperm children.

soft pay walled

This is an absolute tragedy but is also very much a leopards ate my face moment.

Do not feel sorry for these people, though. People who can afford these treatments are wealthy and they certainly voted for the sort of politicians that would create this state supreme court.