The University of Alabama Crimson Tide “is among the most storied and decorated football programs in college football history.” (Wikipedia) It’s so powerful one of it’s logos in a fierce bull elephant having carnal relations with the letter A. One might suggest that the A not only stands for Alabama but also stands for what the state wants to do to abortion.

This is the story that prompted me to write this:

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which a couple sued an Alabama fertility clinic and hospital for the “wrongful death” of their frozen embryos in a ruling that was riddled with theology. The couple’s frozen embryos were destroyed after a hospital patient who accessed the freezer that held the embryos dropped them on the floor. The ruling means that the couple can sue for wrongful death.

Above, frozen embryos from Johns Hopkins article.

Several people took advantage of an incident in Alabama which could have been the subject of a simple negligence lawsuit since the hopsital let a patient have access to a freezer containing embryos. What’s not in the article is whether the couples who sued thought of this themselves or, if not, who decided this was a good idea. Who, after being informed that their frozen embryos were destroyed by mistake, decides that this was murder and that they should make this the basis of a lawsuit?

They have a case for suing for damages. This is a civil case, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the next thing we learn is that the state is charging someone with criminal negligent homicide.

Here’s more from the HuffPost article:

The ruling pointed to the Alabama Constitution Section 36.06, which argues that each person was made in God’s image, meaning each life has an incalculable value that “cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”

“Section 36.06 recognizes that this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life ― that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,” the ruling stated, referring to the Alabama Constitution’s Section 36.06.

What’s next for Alabama, making masturbation, coitus interrputus, female contraception and condoms illegal?

National Politics:

Alabama is Trump country. However, when it comes to abortion there’s a chasm of a difference between his coming out in favor a a 16-week abortion ban and outlawing the destruction of a frozen embryo.

Some science:

We’ve all seen what a fetus looks like at various stages of development. Here an “Embryologist Reveals What Human Eggs Look Like to the Naked Eye Compared to a Dime”