So the state supreme court ruled that a fertilized human egg is a human life and killing it is murder. Now the legislature is, in essence, saying murder of those innocent, unborn humans in this circumstance is okay. They care about innocent human life, but not when it might cost them votes, I guess.

“Life begins at conception” but embryos outside a woman’s body have no personhood rights, while embryos within a woman’s body (even those outside her uterus, in the case of ectopic pregnancy) have personhood rights that exceed those of the woman. It’s not about the embryos, it’s about controlling women’s bodies.

And it’s really a viability argument, because if you do nothing, the IVF ones will eventually thaw out and die, and the ones in utero will live. Yet they’re unwilling to follow that argument to its logical extension of a 24-week leeway for abortion.

“I never thought leopards would eat my face,” said the legislators from the face-eating leopards party.

So what are the odds that these voters will vote out the people that caused this mess in November? This is a rhetorical statement, as this is Alabama. The state that almost voted for a child molester over a Democrat.

They might as well pass a law that says deaths in the meat packing industry aren’t actually criminal 🤷