Vote âfrozen embryoâ for Alabama Supreme Court chief justice
This is an opinion cartoon.
Let’s replace the entire Alabama Supreme Court with frozen embryos. Including chief justice, there are a total of five justice seats up for election this year. All nine justices are Republicans.
The current chief justice is Tom Parker, and he is – thank God and the law – precluded from running for another term. The 72-year-old Parker has aged out, since state laws mandate that an over 70-year-old cannot run for a judge-y position.
The primary election is right around the corner. Grab a pencil and mark March 5 on your calendar, go to the polls and write in the frozen embryo of your choice for all of these seats. Let’s stock the Alabama Supreme Court with much, much younger “people.”
#VoteFrozenEmbryo
Read further for a little more about the current chief justice …
John Archibald writes:
“Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Tom Parker was downright gleeful.
“He quoted Genesis in his sermon — I’m sorry, his concurring opinion — in the Alabama ruling that turned in vitro fertilization on its head by defining frozen embryos as children.”
More excerpts from the column: Archibald: Alabama Supreme Court is a theocracy – al.com
“He wrote of the “wrath of God.”
“The people of Alabama, he said, decided all this was public policy.
“It is as if the People of Alabama took what was spoken of the prophet Jeremiah and applied it to every unborn person in this state: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, Before you were born I sanctified you.’”
“Did I say it wasn’t a sermon? It was definitely a sermon.
“To which the Alabama Supreme Court, with the exception of Justice Greg Cook, who dissented, shouted a half-hearted but still resounding amen.
“Make no mistake about it. Alabama is a theocracy.”
Read all of Archibald’s column here.
Related: Alabama: The ‘Frozen Embryos are People’ state – al.com
Related: Cameron Smith: The Alabama Supreme Court’s scrambled eggs – al.com
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