▪️I think this Alabama SC decision was awful, but this meme follows the law of The Left Can’t Meme & gets it completely backwards. The fact is that storing embryos safely in a cryogenic nursery DOES take a lot of resources and this ruling makes it prohibitively expensive to do so!
▪️The background of this case was that a hospital patient wandered into a fertility clinic through an unsecured door. They entered the cryogenic nursery, removed several embryos, then dropped them on the floor when they freeze-burned their hand, killing the embryos.
▪️The couples who these embryos belonged to sued for damages based on Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The trial court dismissed it as it determined the IVF embryos were not children, but the Alabama SC reversed this, saying even “extrauterine children” are children protected under this act.
▪️Thus, this decision has nothing to do with neglecting embryos or controlling women, it’s the exact opposite. It means every single embryo in an IVF clinic is considered to have the rights of children, and the legal liability that carries with it. It means clinics must protect embryos as if they were children.
▪️Clearly, no one would want to operate an IVF clinic in this sort of legal environment. It’s reasonable that if an embryo is lost or destroyed a couple would be reimbursed for its costs, but to allow them to sue for damages as if it were an actual child brings a huge increase of risk to IVF clinics, for which services are already extremely expensive to prospective parents.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
