The Alabama Supreme Court reaffirmed the indisputable scientific fact that life begins at conception last week when it ruled that “all unborn children,” including extrauterine embryos, are humans under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
Until now, embryos created outside of the womb with assisted reproductive technology were legally considered property, not people. The Alabama Supreme Court’s decision, however, paves the way for the sanctity of unborn life to become an important consideration for states seeking to apply their laws- especially when it comes to reproductive technologies.
The Sanctity Of Extrauterine Life
The Cotton State case dates back to 2020 when a patient at Mobile Infirmary Medical Center wandered into the cryogenic portion of the Center for Reproductive Medicine’s allegedly secure facility and tried to remove three separate couples’ embryos from freezer storage.
“The subzero temperatures at which the embryos had been stored freeze-burned the patient’s hand, causing the patient to drop the embryos on the floor, killing them,” the lawsuit states.
The couples that paid big bucks to create and store their lab-manufactured embryos sued the Center under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act for failing to protect what they believed to be…
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