The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.

The state’s highest court reversed a judge’s dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2391·
    9 months ago

    Alabama families who are struggling with fertility can now look forward to no fertility clinics willing to endure the legal risk of operating in that state.

    Great job republicans. These weird ass “pro life” laws continue to prevent people who want kids from having them, or prevent people from having them without dying.

    • ElleChaise@kbin.social
      661·
      9 months ago

      Not to mention those who can afford to will simply leave to make families elsewhere. Making a child generally tends to rank higher on people’s priorities list than staying in one state forever.

    • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works
      531·
      9 months ago

      Good news: fundies agree with you. They always hated IVF and view infertility as God’s judgment on you as a person.

    • flipht@kbin.social
      101·
      9 months ago

      Seems like part of the goal. Outlaw abortion, force everyone who doesn’t want a child to hand it over to the state, which will outsource to religious organizations, and then tighten up the child supply so anyone who can’t have but wants a child will have to go through a local church to get access, and the price will go up.

      Win win win for the religious fanatics.

      • not_again@lemmy.world
        51·
        9 months ago

        Creation of embryos should happen entirely outside the body of the female, followed by decapitation of the male as God intended.

        Sincerely,

        P. Mantis, esq

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      42·
      9 months ago

      Well it seems they’re all in the illegal business of buying and selling children. They’ll have to all be prosecuted anyhow, including all the donors and buyers. Along with the state itself for allowing the selling of children for all these years.

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1472·
    9 months ago

    Soon it’ll be illegal to end your ovulation cycle because every egg is a life. Jesus these people are some fucking dumb religious zealots.

  • Gazumi@lemmy.world
    941·
    9 months ago

    It won’t be long before the Monty Python song about every sperm being sacred, becomes the MAGA crowds mantra. Wankers that they are.

    • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      28·
      9 months ago

      I gotta confess. Cuz the guilt is overwhelming.

      In my teens and early twenties, I committed A LOT of sacrilege on a daily basis.

      We’re talking millions of coulda-been-babies that ended up wrapped in tissue and tossed into trash cans.

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
      291·
      9 months ago

      Bloody Catholics filling the bloody world with bloody children they can’t afford to bloody feed.

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
        194·
        9 months ago

        That’s what being a Protestant’s all about. That’s why it’s the church for me. That’s why it’s the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual’s right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen- seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas,… [sniff] …and, Protestantism doesn’t stop at the simple condom! Oh, no! I can wear French Ticklers if I want

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    823·
    9 months ago

    bOtH sIdEs aRe tHe sAmE!!!

    The fuck they are. If you are a woman voting republican you are OK with other people telling you what to do with your body.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          21·
          9 months ago

          My parents were watching 60 minutes last night and they discussed the stolen electors and the efforts to steal the election. To which ones response is that well Biden is so bad they still want him. When asked why they didn’t find another candidate there is nothing but that is who the GOP wants. They just say everything is a lie now so they can ignore whatever they choose and say the Democrats are just as bad. Pretty much “Both sides” as it gets.

          Edit: They don’t like that I say all Democrat and Republicans should be voted out and removed then.

          • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 months ago

            Keep fighting the good fight. I am saddened by the loss of so many of my family members to conservatism. They chose to make enemies of normal people. So now they stew in their world of bigotry, wondering why their closest family members won’t talk to them anymore.

      • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        Lol I was saying that back when these claims were sane.

        But that shit is waaaay out. Being a centrist, I guess I have to support “left” now…right went over horizon.

        • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
          7·
          9 months ago

          I’ve voted as a “compassionate conservative” for over 30 years, and without changing views I’m now a bit left of Biden. It’s been crazy to watch.

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
    803·
    9 months ago

    Sooo how does it work when you’ve done a successful IVF and still got a bunch of Frozen embryos waiting somewhere? Do you get back at home and put them in the freezer until you die? Are you mandated to carry them to term? What if a woman dies in a car accident before she had a chance to carry the embryo? Is the man mandated to find someone to carry them to term? I have so many questions

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      111·
      9 months ago

      I would imagine you have to pay to store them until you can find an out of state clinic to take them and dispose of them. This won’t result in fewer embryo terminations. It will likely just mean IVF will be more expensive.

      • wagoner@infosec.pub
        51·
        9 months ago

        Until there is no other state that will allow it. Or the state you are in prohibits transfers like this.

        • SeaJ@lemm.ee
          41·
          9 months ago

          The first one is extremely unlikely. Since Alabama sees these as people, the second one would be limiting freedom of travel which would be unconstitutional. I’m sure Republicans would not want the precedent that people can be forced to stay where they are. They really hated the covid lockdowns and I am sure they would never be hypocrites. /s

  • just_change_it@lemmy.world
    631·
    9 months ago

    Don’t forget kids, a miscarriage is murder.

    Slavery is freedom.

    Those with money are the only people who matter, and whoever has the most is the one who deserves to decide every aspect of how everyone else should live.

  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
    572·
    9 months ago

    So … if they are people … and they aren’t used for 21 years … can their infant form but alcohol?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    441·
    9 months ago

    IVF results in children being born who otherwise would not have been. These are women who want to be pregnant and give birth. Yet, the pro-life movement is trying to destroy this kind of healthcare.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      51·
      9 months ago

      Well we are disproportionately likely to be born as abominations unto nuggan the lord, or as we’re called in lands of sin “intersex”.

      But seriously chimerism is more common among us IVF babies and that does mean that we’re more likely to have different cells have different sex chromosomes. Idk if these people know about that but it is something I can see them using as justification here.

      The catholic justification is that it never mattered if you wanted to make a child, what matters is if god wants you to. And if you really want a kid anyways adopt.

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        abominations unto nuggan

        Excellent reference to an excellent book (Monstrous Regiment) from an excellent series by an excellent author.

        GNU Terry Pratchett.

        Edit: fixed my markdown

    • sapient [they/them]@infosec.pub
      41·
      9 months ago

      Its all bioreactionary stuff, really. Its always been about control and conformity to their idea of a “”“natural”“” role.

      Using technology to aid in reproduction is seen as bad because it’s doing something “”“nature”“”/“”“god”“” did not dictate you do as per their highly authoritarian worldview.

      Basically anything that would let you have agency over your body is hated by these people, because their real ideology is one of control, social and physical conformity, and obedience (to “god”, to what’s “natural”, to repressive social norms, to churches, to parents - these folks view children as property, to whatever hierarchy exists, to some strongman leader, etc. :/)

      The same logic applies to something as comparatively minor as hairdye or piercings - they always freak out about that stuff, ever notice? - to something as major as being trans or the state of someone’s uterus. Its all about control over people’s bodies and minds and identities to what they may deem “natural” (or often “godly”) (which usually involves hierarchies of prejudice as well as opposing any technological means to have control over yourself, and also opposing people’s access to information and critical thinking skills - e.g. promoting internet censorship often of queer groups <.<, or opposing science & critical thinking education).

      Anything that gives people the option to decide for themselves what they want - technologically, socially, informationally - rather than obeying some higher authority (“nature”, “god”, the state, corporations, parents, social norms) is opposed. Anything that demonstrates people have used those methods - such as any kind of transition stuff, miscarrages (because it “could” be due to abortificants nya), or the things mentioned earlier - is to be punished. Socially, monetarily, physically, legally, anything.

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
        31·
        9 months ago

        half the shit they preach isn’t “natural” either!

        if they so want to be “natural” I’d like to see them barely dressed in scraps of leather fucking in the forest clearning and grunting at others for coming up to them when they’re eating, then dying of food poisoning because reading a plants guide is unnatural and that mushroom looked tasty. Ditch the cell phones, ditch the glasses, ditch the shoes, none of them are natural.

        it’s literally all arbitrary, all made up to fit their worldview

  • TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world
    432·
    9 months ago

    I for one am sick and tired of everyone talking about freedom and 2A rights when nobody has done a single fucking thing about the obvious tyranny.

    There’s another thread begging us not to excoriate Alabama citizens because of a few corrupt politicians and religious wackos. NO. I was born there. My family are there. And they are a bunch of psychotic freedom-hating, gun-toting, bible-thumping neanderthal psychopaths just like their politicians are.

    Here are the facts: the people whining and complaining about this sit there and take it. It’s always someone else; it’s never the psychotic lunatics in their own family, so they take it. If only all those other people would speak up and do something.

    My brother has spent his lifetime campaigning for pro-life causes whenever he can because he went to a psychotic christian university. I don’t have anything to do with him. His only son killed himself at 13 in a gun mishap but he is masturbating FURIOUSLY over this AL SupCourt decision.

    This WILL continue until you ACTUALLY FIGHT IT. If you have no intention to or think that’s somehow barbaric, then sit down and shut the fuck up.

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
      103·
      9 months ago

      2A fight has been lost decades ago. It now only is overweight larpers with their AR platforms. In order for the 2A to mean anything we need to build a national network of militias. Without that infrastructure an armed action or threat is just a lunatic with a gun

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        62·
        9 months ago

        People love think that they would survive some dude flying a kamikaze drone from under a mountain.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        26·
        9 months ago

        Lol.nope. Militias aren’t going to stand a a chance against the federal government and if we got invaded the military would be begging people to stop getting in the way of the world’s most efficient killing machine.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            11·
            9 months ago

            You’re assuming a lot there. All else being equal making a super militia is not going to swing things.

            • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
              2·
              9 months ago

              Think of it more like a union. And armed forces arent necessarily the best vehicle for political change for obvious reasons, but rather they are good for protecting human rights from institutions that want to take them away. For instance, a pro choice militia that would protect a clinic, doctor, or patient from a state agency trying to arrest them and prosecute them. Also, it doesn’t need to end up in a shootout, a lot of military and defense is about hypothesis of conflict and the potential cost that comes with it. Sure, a federal or government institution could wipe the floor with the militia, but would it be worth it monetarily and politically?

              • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                In the case you highlight? Absolutely. Christian fascists see violence against the oppressed group as a good thing.

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
          11·
          9 months ago

          I love this argument, because in reality the U.S. government hasn’t won a military victory against an entrenched militia since Grenada. And that was just a tiny island. We couldn’t beat the taliban, who were armed with a bunch of cold war surplus gear.

          Even if the U.S. military and police forces wanted to fight a civil war against their own population, they would have to do so knowing that the American public has 100 guns for every soldier and cop.

          Tanks, planes, and drones can’t do much without soldiers on the ground to enforce an occupation.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            11·
            9 months ago

            I see you’ve fallen for the propaganda. The Taliban only came back after we left. And only because they had enough support from the people. AQ and ISIS are shattered. Al-Shabab is basically the FARC of East Africa now.

            I know you guys think you have some kind of “silent majority” but you really don’t. Given a choice between normalcy and living in an insurgency, most people will choose normalcy in a heart beat. So it won’t be the military vs the people. It will be the militias vs the people and their military. At best you’ll get sizeable chunks of some red state populations. Just imagine how thrilled the other 90% of the country is going to be that you chose violence. Yeah, they’re going to cheer videos of Apache gun cam footage on live TV. And you’ll still be clueless.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
    291·
    9 months ago

    If embryos are children, then make it illegal to freeze them and lock them away in an ice box… That’s a cruel form of torture

    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
      92·
      9 months ago

      Wow what a tax write off. Imagine claiming child tax credits on frozen embryos… You could just freeze a hundred or even thousands of embryos and watch the cash flow in perpetuity…