I am confident that this result will not stand.

Even so, it is frightening how little the GOP Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court understand about human biology and development. Updated — the University hospital at Birmingham has announced that it is “pausing” all IVF procedures in light of the below. So this is no longer a “theoretical” problem, Alabama. Damnation.

End, updated portion.

I do not think many Americans would concur that a FROZEN clump of perhaps 500 cells… is a human, with all the rights of a human — and should the IVF fail, the doctors (and “parents”) might be charged with a “homicide”.

That is lunacy, Alabama. Here’s the bit of it:

…“This ruling is stating that a fertilized egg, which is a clump of cells, is now a person. It really puts into question, the practice of IVF,” Barbara Collura, CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, told The Associated Press Tuesday.

The group called the decision a “terrifying development for the 1-in-6 people impacted by infertility” who need in-vitro fertilization….

This will ultimately reach the Supremes. It will be overturned — and elected state level judges should leave science… to the scientists.

One may be compensated, where — as here — the embryos were negligently destroyed by a lab — without having to decide that the clump of cells was a fully formed human being. In sum, this decision violates the rule of parsimony. Onward.

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