JD Crowe: Alabama: The âFrozen Embryos are Peopleâ state
This is an opinion cartoon.
Welp, I reckon Alabama has another new slogan for our visitor’s bureau: Welcome to Alabama: The ‘Frozen Embryos are People’ state. Has a warm and fuzzy ring to it. Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker may as well stand at the state line and scream: “If you need a fertility clinic to have a baby, keep on truckin’, y’all!”
Thanks, Alabama Supreme “Frozen Embryos” Court. You blockheads are cold as ice.
Kyle Whitmire writes in his column: “Alabama is now so pro-life that eager, anxious would-be parents might not be able to have babies.
“Can’t get much more pro-life than that.”
Related: Alabama frozen embryo ruling has impact far outside state and beyond abortion – al.com
Related: Fearing prosecution, UAB pauses in vitro fertilization after Alabama embryo court ruling – al.com
Related: Women getting IVF in Alabama say window closing on getting pregnant: ‘I’m terrified.’ – al.com
More excerpts from Whitmire’s column:
“For most folks, it’s pretty obvious that an embryo smaller than the period at the end of this sentence is not a person, but the Alabama Supreme Court now says that it is, and there’s no telling where that leads.
“When a couple has a child after IVF treatments and discards their leftover embryos, are they then guilty of mass murder? What about the clinic staff?
“Are hopeful parents seeking such treatments on the hook to keep their unused frozen embryos forever?”
Read the entire column: Whitmire: If frozen embryos are people in Alabama, what happens next? Anyone? – al.com
When will Alabama act its age instead of just its ice age?
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].
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