What Fuckery is afoot? Alabama does it again.

The Supreme Court wades into ethical quicksand, clearly emboldened by Dobbs, and the people are the losers. A sad day indeed.

I read in the WaPo today that the Alabama Supreme court just ruled that frozen embryos are children.

For fuck’s sake, this is an asinine, bullshit take of monstrous proportions. From the article:

The Alabama case focused on whether a patient who mistakenly dropped and destroyed other couples’ frozen embryos could be held liable in a wrongful-death lawsuit. The court ruled the patient could, writing that it had long held that “unborn children are ‘children’” and that that was also true for frozen embryos, affording the fertilized eggs the same protection as babies under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.

I can’t tell you how pigheaded and ignorant this it.

We do not have children. But my wife and I did a couple rounds of IVF back in the early aughts, and it was a hellacious process. Between the hormones and other prep work, and all the harvesting, fertilization, and implanting, it was super stressful, and even my wife who is very emotional normally was really affected by the process.

And all the implanted embryos of both cycles self aborted. We were sad, we were poorer (it was very expensive) and we finally made peace with being childless.

But now, if we happened to live in Alabama, we could be charged as criminals when we informed the clinic to dispose of the fertilized embryos.

That is just plain fucked.

Old, insecure white dudes who really should shut the fuck up are again getting in between people and their doctors.

Fucking shithole state indeed.

I am just so pissed, yet so not-surprised by this fuckery that I just can’t even.

I wish I could say this is not who we are, but alas, it seems that it really is who we are.

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