In a theology-heavy ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court will allow a couple to sue for the "wrongful death" of their frozen embryos obtained through IVF.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are children, which pro-choice rights groups have warned could have dangerous implications for fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which a couple sued an Alabama fertility clinic and hospital for the “wrongful death” of their frozen embryos in a ruling that was riddled with theology. The couple’s frozen embryos were destroyed after a hospital patient who accessed the freezer that held the embryos dropped them on the floor. The ruling means that the couple can sue for wrongful death.

This should end well. /s

    • Funderpants
      5·
      9 months ago

      The constitution doesn’t say it in 36.06, although their preamble does mention God and being made in his image.

      Unless their constitution was recently updated and I can’t find the new title xt.

      The Court interpreted it with all that being local language though.

      • hddsx
        21·
        9 months ago

        Ah okay, I saw that the court mentioned god with respect to 36.06 and looked it up. It’s a good point that I didn’t read the entire thing.

        Thanks for context

        • Funderpants
          1·
          9 months ago

          I didn’t read the entire thing either, who wants to be reading the whole Alabama state constitution on a Monday night right?

          Not me, that’s for sure.