"Incurring the Wrath of a Holy God": Alabama Court Redefines "Children"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Jean Godden

Margaret Atwood’s 1980s-era The Handmaid’s Tale always struck me as a horrifying but an unlikely tale. I was wrong. Margaret Atwood’s account of raging misogyny is coming closer to prediction than I could I have imagined.

In the book’s mythical Republic of Gilead, women were valued only for their ovaries — if viable. Their reproductive freedom was monitored and tightly controlled. Shadows of those restrictive standards are seen now in Alabama, where a majority of the Alabama Supreme Court issued a decision in a pair of wrongful-death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic. The court found that frozen embryos “should be considered children.”

Concurring with majority court decision, Chief Justice Tom Parker delivered a fiery biblical address saying, “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.” Parker invoked the book of Genesis and the prophet Jeremiah and quoted from 16th and 17th Century theologians. In reaching its 8-1 decision, the all-white, all-Republican court cited an Alabama 1872 statute holding that the wrongful death of “unborn children” is subject to charges of killing a minor.

The court’s ruling, which rattled reproductive medicine practitioners across the country and shut down in vitro fertilization (IVF) operations in Alabama, is not only unscientific but absurd. It will force women who cannot easily conceive either to leave that state for increasingly costly help or to abandon IVF and endure multiple miscarriages. Other states with punitive abortion bans are likely to follow suit declaring that fertilized embryos (a cluster of eight frozen cells) are “children.” That finding seems a pathway to recognizing personhood for fetuses, a controversial goal long sought by anti-abortion activists.

https://www.postalley.org/2024/02/25/incurring-the-wrath-of-a-holy-god-alabama-court-redefines-children/

[Traildogbob]

1. When is there

Gonna be any wrath from that holy God on those that bow down to the mighty Gun lobbies that allow children out of the womb to be slaughtered for Freedom????

[Irish_Dem]

3. God doesn't care about out the womb kids.

God seems obsessed only with in the womb kids or frozen ones we keep in the deep freezer.

[Traildogbob]

4. God works in strange ways.

Maybe out of womb kids are Jesus’ responsibility.
He needs to get to work.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Well then Jesus is slacking and dropping the ball.

Which damn deity is in charge of the out of the womb kids?

[Traildogbob]

6. One of the

Invisible Sky Wizards. Maybe time for God to impregnate another Virgin to give his son some help since killing kids is now just a past time for those made in his image. Back in his day the population was much smaller and mass killing machines were not the God Given Right to own and use for Freedom. Gotta be a huge undertaking to watch after all of em.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Christians keep saying God is in charge of this planet.

If God was a CEO he would have been fired a long time ago.

It's lonely at the top, but that is where the buck stops.

[LearnedHand]

10. Wait, let me get this straight

Out of the womb BEFORE birth: Protected

In the womb: Protected

Out of the womb AFTER birth: Eat shit and die, kid and family

Sound about right? Fucking cocknozzles.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes you got it.

That is the GOP way.

[Deuxcents]

2. Our laws are based on our Constitution, not the Bible, the Quran or The Torah

Or any other so called holy book. They are ruling this issue like we’re a theocracy and I’m expecting this to be litigated.

[Walleye]

8. The Republicans' reaction, when they had figured out what it actually meant

Reminded me of the character Robby the Robot on overload, like in the movie “Forbidden Planet”

[Chainfire]

9. More like the wrath of a wholely ignorant judge to me.