Read news snippetsand source of quotes is included with time I read article today.
14th Amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Alabama Supreme Court just declared unborn babies as "PERSONS--children" which means they are covered by the 14th Amendment. This is VERY GOOD NEWS for baby humans.It's what prolife groups have been fighting for since 1963.This is best news in my lifetime!
Quote : "“This ruling is stating that a fertilized egg, which is a clump of cells, is now a person. "...
An anti-abortion group cheered the decision. “Each person, from the tiniest embryo to an elder nearing the end of his life, has incalculable value that deserves and is guaranteed legal protection,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action said in a statement.
Chief Justice Tom Parker issued a concurring opinion that quoted the Bible as he discussed the meaning of the phrase “the sanctity of unborn life” in the Alabama Constitution.
“Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,” Parker said."<> {comment: That ruling means human beings in embryo/ fetus stage are legal persons and as such are protected by the 14th Amendment. WAHOO. Hallelujah Jesus!]
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-alabama-supreme-court-rules-frozen-embryos-are-children-under-state-law/;
20Feb2024;4pm
Wahoo! Good news for baby humans!! And for the prolife cause of ending premeditated murder of babies in utero: Quote: " MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA/Gray News) - The Alabama Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that frozen embryos are “children” and are therefore entitled to the same legal rights as other unborn children under state law"... The Alabama Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared, “the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location."
One justice wrote, “Unborn children are ‘children’ under the Act, without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics.”
https://www.ky3.com/2024/02/20/frozen-embryos-are-children-says-alabama-supreme-court/;
20Feb2024;3:30pm
More on that :Quote:"The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos are "children," entitled to full personhood rights, and anyone who destroys them could be liable in a wrongful death case."
...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.
"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."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/frozen-embryos-are-children-according-to-alabamas-supreme-court/
20Feb2024;3:50pm;
More on that :
Quote:
"Since the mid-1980s, almost 40 states have passed fetal homicide laws, and multiple states have prosecuted or attempted to prosecute women for their actions while pregnant. The Alabama supreme court, for instance, previously ruled that the state’s chemical endangerment law could be used to prosecute women who use drugs during pregnancyIn 2018, Alabama voters passed a ballot measure granting fetuses full personhood rights, but the measure did not note whether that applied to frozen embryos.
The Alabama supreme court’s ruling repeatedly references God and the sanctity of life, citing the Bible and biblical scholars including Petrus van Mastricht, Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. Chief Justice Thomas Parker wrote: “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 … 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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-children-ruling-ivf;
20Feb2024;3:57pm
More on that in Washington Post:
"The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying them...
The court ruled the patient could, writing that it had long held that “unborn children are ‘children’” and that that was also true for frozen embryos, affording the fertilized eggs the same protection as babies under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act....
“It applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation,” the court wrote....The push for defining personhood has even affected tax law: Georgia now recognizes an “unborn child” as a dependent after six weeks of pregnancy.
In Alabama, voters passed a ballot measure in 2018 that granted fetuses full personhood rights but did not mention frozen embryos. After the fall of Roe, a near-total abortion ban went into effect in the state..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/19/alabama-supreme-court-embryos-children-ivf/;
20FEb2024;5:10pm
Quote AP :" “Unborn children are ‘children’ ... without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics,” Justice Jay Mitchell wrote in Friday’s majority ruling from the all-Republican court"...
“This ruling is stating that a fertilized egg, which is a clump of cells, is now a person....
Critics at the time said it would have broad ramifications for civil and criminal law beyond abortion access and that it was essentially a “personhood” measure that would establish constitutional rights for fertilized egg"...
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-supreme-court-from-embryos-161390f0758b04a7638e2ddea20df7ca;
20Feb2024;5:13pm
Quote: "Alabama frozen embryo ruling has impact far outside state and beyond abortion..
Quote:"An Alabama Supreme Court decision legally recognizing frozen embryos as children The court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos — which are used in IVF — are considered unborn children...
“This important ruling has far-reaching implications,” said Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver, whose organization is arguing Florida’s own laws “routinely recognize that an ‘unborn child’ has the legally protected rights of a person.”
https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-frozen-embryo-ruling-has-impact-far-outside-state-and-beyond-abortion.html;
20Feb2024;7:12pm
Also of urgent news today:
Quote Reuters:" Feb 20 (Reuters) - Three Republican-led states will not be allowed to join an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court that will decide the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, the high court ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, where anti-abortion groups filed the challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug, last month had allowed Missouri, Kansas and Idaho to join the lawsuit.
The states will remain as parties in the underlying case. However, Tuesday's ruling means they will not be part of an appeal of Kacsmaryk's preliminary order and a later appeals court order that would put significant restrictions on mifepristone, including a ban on prescribing it by telemedicine and dispensing it by mail....
The states, which all ban abortion in most cases, have said that they have standing because they have to spend public funds to treat their citizens who experience complications after they leave the state to obtain mifepristone and return.
In a motion filed last month, they told the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to join the appeal so that the court can decide the merits of the case even if it decides that the original plaintiffs lack standing.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement that the states would file a friend-of-the-court brief, and "look forward to continuing our support of the great work" done by the anti-abortion groups in the case...
The case is Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 23-235.
For the states: Missouri Solicitor General Joshua Divine, Kansas Solicitor General Anthony Powell and Idaho Solicitor General Alan Hurst
For the FDA: U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar
For the plaintiffs: Erin Hawley of Alliance Defending Freedom
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republican-states-cant-join-appeal-abortion-pill-case-supreme-court-rules-2024-02-20/;
20Feb2024;8:33pm
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