Second Alabama Provider Halts IVF Treatments

The Guardian reports:

A second Alabama provider announced that it will pause its in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state supreme court ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that embryos are “extrauterine children”. “We have made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists,” Alabama Fertility said in a post to its Instagram account.

The Alabama state supreme court chief justice, Tom Parker, repeatedly invoked the Bible. “The principle itself – that human life is fundamentally distinct from other forms of life and cannot be taken intentionally without justification – has deep roots that reach back to the creation of man ‘in the image of God’,” Parker wrote, before citing Genesis 1:27 of the King James edition.

Read the full article. As I reported yesterday, Parker [photo] recently appeared on a notorious QAnon podcast to push a brand of Christian nationalism called Seven Mountains dominionism.

BREAKING: A second Alabama IVF provider has paused parts of its treatment after a court ruling on frozen embryos. https://t.co/KV1mlPB3ly

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 22, 2024