Robin Abcarian: Would you expect a firefighter to run into a burning building to save a frozen embryo?
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Feb 22, 2024
3 minutes
The bizarre decision handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled that frozen human embryos are people too, is the reductio ad absurdum of the antiabortion movement's religious worship of the union of egg and sperm.
The court ruled that Alabama's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, which was enacted in 1872, long before artificial reproductive technology — let alone frozen embryos — were a gleam in anyone's eye, applies to "all unborn children, regardless of their location."
is, in a word, preposterous. And I'm not the only
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