1y ago

Chief justice's Christian reasoning in IVF opinion sparks alarm over church-state separation

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As it goddamned should.
- Where's the Satanic temple at? This should be a case they can take if it goes unchallenged
  
  Why do we depend on one small group to challenge these things. There should be unbridled community outrage. Crowd fund the legal challenge.
  Most importantly though. Vote these rejects the fuck out of office. Shut them out for good.
  
  I honestly don't see what a federal court can do about rogue state courts. It's usually up to the state legislature to fix that unless it's actual insurrection. And since this is Alabama, that's not going to happen.
I'm just waiting on my tax breaks for each sperm to be counted as a dependent.
- But do you really want the child support payments or murder charges for all the knuckle babies?
- Alabama rn
News flash! Old white male thinks everyone should live like he says.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind.
By citing verses from the Bible and Christian theologians in his concurring opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker alarmed advocates for church-state separation, while delighting religious conservatives who oppose abortion.
The Alabama court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children is an extension of the ideology that undergirds the anti-abortion movement, said Mary Ziegler, a historian of the abortion debate and a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
Kellyanne Conway, the political consultant who worked for former President Donald Trump, lobbied GOP lawmakers in December to advocate for contraception and fertility treatments.
On Friday, Trump shared his strong support for IVF in a post on his Truth Social network and called on Alabama lawmakers to protect access to the procedure.
Laser, of Americans United, said that even the Alabama court’s majority decision — which does not explicitly reference religion — is problematic; it states that all participants in the case “agree that an unborn child is a genetically unique human being whose life begins at fertilization and ends at death.”
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