For Meds to Expel a Miscarried Fetus, My Daughter Had to Say She “Chose” to “End” Her Pregnancy*
Insult Added to Injury
A couple weeks ago, I posted I.V.F-You in response to the Alabama Supreme Court’s noxious decision that frozen human embryos are children which effectively rendered I.V.F. treatments there illegal. This left Alabamans who struggle with infertility even fewer options and the cost of “childcare” ever increasing with thousands of embryos on ice — maybe forever.
Alabama residents had approved a 2018 amendment to the state constitution “‘recogniz[ing] and support[ing] the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life’ and stat[ing] that no provisions of the constitution provide a right to an abortion or require funding of abortions.” See Alabama State Abortion Policy Amendment. The next logical step, of course, was for the state’s supreme court to find just the right case to endow personhood — and all that means — on a human egg at the moment of fertilization.
In its February 2024 ruling, State Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell wrote, “[T]he Wrongful Death of a Minor Act is sweeping and unqualified. It applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation. It is not the role of this Court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise…