After Alabama rules that frozen embryos are children, some fertility patients pray that lawmakers find a solution.

When Alabama’s Supreme Court defined frozen embryos as children, the shock and confusion was immediate. Major hospitals pulled fertility services and would-be parents scrambled for clarity on what would happen next.

The debate over reproductive rights in America has long been driven, in part, by opposition to abortion from Christian groups - but this ruling has divided that movement and ignited debate about the role of theology in US lawmaking.

  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is also behind the trans panic and concurrent anti-LGBTQ legislation in conservative states.

    Sure, they’ll package it with scripture and moralizing, but in the end? It’s all about fear.