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Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court::IVF often produces more embryos than are needed or used.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (12 children)

My wife and I had our son via IVF. We wanted every single one of our fertilized eggs to work, but they didn’t. We had one that did and we suffered every time one didn’t.

Fuck Alabama for adding on to the torment and emotional suffering families going through IVF and any kind of infertility suffer already. It’s just adding unspeakable cruelty again.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen my sister going through this process for years. It's emotionally challenging, financially challenging, and risky to her health. She's had two ectopic pregnancies and had to be operated on twice. If she manages to have one baby she'll be happy, and there's no way it would make sense to implant all the other embryos given the health risk to her. So what would Alabama have her do?

I'm glad she doesn't live there.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alabama would have probably let her die with one of the ectopic pregnancies tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have heard someone say in all seriousness that it's still murder to abort an ectopic pregnancy (which would just kill the mom and 'child' if allowed to continue)...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“But god can save her! If it’s part of his plan they will survive!”

/s if it wasn’t obvious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean the odds aren't very different for the kid after the procedure. Why can't God save them after? Not even /s, why don't they ever have an answer for that? If we're relying on a miracle anyway, why would an infinitely powerful god need such constrained circumstances to make it work?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Women of America. Get a freezer. Freeze your eggs and transport them home. On all future taxes claim them as dependents in perpetuity. Fuck these asshats. Game the system and make bank!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Christians are such fucking idiots.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the Alabama case, a hospital patient wandered through an unlocked door, removed frozen, preserved embryos from subzero storage and, suffering an ice burn, dropped the embryos, destroying them. Affected IVF patients filed wrongful-death lawsuits against the IVF clinic under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The case was initially dismissed in a lower court, which ruled the embryos did not meet the definition of a child. But the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that "it applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation." In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker cited his religious beliefs and quoted the Bible to support the stance.

absolutely wild case

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is he allowed to quote the Bible to support his stance.

Ffs America

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It's as though they took "The Handmaid's Tale" as a blueprint.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Alabama? More like Talibana, a’ight? Being ruled by religious extremists - in the 21st (ce) century - blows my mind. Are people still that backwards? Apparently, yes. Nothing wrong with a bit of private faith in the sky man if it helps you in life… but to be a fundamentalist is unforgivable.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I heard this somewhere: “You’re in an IVF clinic. It’s on fire and you enter a burning room. On a table is a large cooler with 5 thousand fertilized eggs, and there’s also a crying, injured five-year-old girl in the room. Which one do you save? You can only save one.” The answer for most people is obviously the 5 year old and it’s not a hard choice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this mean I can claim my sperm as a dependent on my taxes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"What's all this stuff in the freezer!?!"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We had I think six eggs harvested and fertilized, of those I think two made it to blastocyst, meaning the cells doubled as they should by day five. The four that didn't double correctly were discarded. Did we commit 4 murders? Or does it not count if the embryo doesn't make it to blastocyst? We did genetic testing on the two that were fertilized, one is normal and the other came back with all manner of horrible deformities. We implanted the healthy one, and discarded the genetically abnormal one. I assume that was another murder. Should we have just stored it indefinitely? We would never use it, can't destroy it, so what do? What happens after we die?

I know the answer is probably it wasn't god's will for us to have kids, all IVF is evil, blah blah blah. It really freaks me out sometimes how much of the country is living in the 1600s.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker cited his religious beliefs and quoted the Bible to support the stance.

"Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself," Parker wrote. "Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory."

wtf

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Alabama not do the whole "separation of church and state" thing? Lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No the religious zealots here do not. School coaches require prayer before practices and games, same sex couples get banned from prom, kids at school get tricked into going to fun after school events that turn out to actually be evangelism stunts. A lot of applications to educational programs, gymnastics programs, and jobs ask about "leadership" which is code for experience as a church deacon or active evangelist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Ironic that he quoted the Bible since the Bible is okay with abortion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also the very heavy and intentional use of pronouns.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone should sue Alabama for keeping 'children' in a frozen state.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why the fuck should we ever have to ask a judge this? Hey judge why don't you tell us how we cure cancer? Judge, judge, what is dark matter? Please, you are the ultimate authority on all things!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then they should count as dependents, grant the parents tax breaks, be eligible for social benefits, receive child support payments, be counted as passengers when in mom driving in HOV lanes, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Holy shit storing embryos frozen and counting them as dependants would be an actual life hack

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We almost got this with Alabama 2023 bill HB182 which would grant unborn children as dependents on taxes. The bill didn't pass. These people want children to count only when dolling out punishments.

https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB182/2023

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wait until everyone on the state gets IVF treatments but never implants them, dozens of dependants claimed on their tax forms for free!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, if I move there, as a man, can I claim millions of dependents? I mean they're just unborn, they count right?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A group of Alabama residents decide to rob a bank. They put on their ski masks, grab their guns, run in, yell for everyone to get down and they start looking for the vault. They ransack every office, but all they find are some fancy coolers. Tired from the search and hot from wearing ski masks in Alabama, they open one of them up to find a bunch of cool refreshing yogurt. They drink it, cool off a bit, and then they go looking for the manager. They find this nice looking guy in a suit and tie:

"Hey, are you the manager of this bank?", they yell, pointing a gun at his face.

"Yes sir, I am", the guy is shaking and scared, but tries to keep calm.

"Take us to your vault, right fucking now!"

"Vault? Sir this is a sperm bank"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sing it with me...

🎵 Every sperm is... 🎵

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🎶 sacred, every sperm is great... 🎶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🎶 If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate. 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure exactly what companies store these frozen embryos, but if the company closes or you pass. How are the embryos disposed of?

Does the company need to keep them frozen and alive indefinitely? Or is it murder if they are terminated by the company? What happens if the freezers/cooler breaks? Who is responsible for the now classified murder?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The biggest surprise to me is that Alabama has a Supreme Court.

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