Alabama Supreme Court Declines to Revisit 'Embryos Are Children' Case

Alabama's Supreme Court has confirmed it.

YES.

Embryos are children.

Despite liberals across America being outraged over the decision, and a fair number of conservatives speaking out against it as well, Alabama's Supreme Court has declined to revisit the case in which they came to the conclusion that classifies frozen embryos are children under state law.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to reconsider a controversial ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under a state law. https://t.co/txwljD4e1d

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The decision was made in February, when a 7-2 majority in the Alabama Supreme Court gave the verdict.

Alabama's Supreme Court was originally presented the case when a lawsuit was brought about by three couples who had had their frozen embryos accidentally destroyed at a storage facility.

The court's decision enabled the couples to pursue wrongful death claims by classifying the destroyed embryos as "extrauterine children," despite the fact that the embryos had never been fertilized.

Because of the February decision, several Alabama fertility clinics halted IVF (in vitro fertilization) services because of potential civil liabilities.

The state legislature eventually passed laws to shield these providers from civil lawsuits, but the legal situation for reproductive services in Alabama remains unclear at best.

Not everyone on Alabama's Supreme Court agreed with the ruling initially, as evidenced by the two dissenters.

"The majority opinion on original submission had significant and sweeping implications for individuals who were entirely unassociated with the parties in the case. Many of those individuals had no reason to believe that a legal and routine medical procedure would be delayed, much less denied, as a result of this Court’s opinion," said dissenting Justice Will Sellers at the time.

After seeing a few months of the impact of their decision, Alabama's Supreme Court had a chance to go back and revisit the case in the event that they felt they would have handled anything differently.

Despite the opportunity, the state Supreme Court declined to take the case again.

That means, at least for now, the ruling is final.

Sorry liberals.

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