The Alabama Supreme Court’s Feb. 16 ruling that embryos are children is an affront to those of us who are in favor of life.
In Jewish law and custom, and in many other faith communities, life begins not at conception, but when the newly formed person first takes a breath. The Alabama chief justice’s implication that the “wrath of a holy God” will befall those who are unable to utilize all frozen embryos violates the separation of church and state and denies would-be parents the opportunity to bring children to life.
Indeed, the way far-right activists view reproduction, as well as the GOP’s policy positions on child care and youth poverty, reinforces what religious fundamentalists who deny women the right to reproductive freedom seem to believe: Life begins at conception and ends at birth.
R&I – TP
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