Last week the Alabama Supreme Court declared that human embryos used in IVF labs were legal persons,

which caused several IVF clinics in the state to pause their services since IVF involves the

willful killing of some of these human beings.

But several conservatives who have opposed abortion, at least in the past,

have said in response that they object to the court's ruling and they see nothing wrong with IVF and they think it should be legal.

And in today's episode I'm going to show you why they're wrong.

But to do that I need to give you some background on IVF and also on what happened in the state of Alabama.

So IVF or in vitro fertilization is a process where a woman's eggs are fertilized by a man's

sperm but not inside her body. Instead this happens in a laboratory

Petri dish. Some of the newly created human embryos, which are just young human beings,

are then placed back into the woman's body where they continue

to develop and are born nine months later. Embryos that are not placed in the woman's body

are either destroyed or placed indefinitely in cryogenic preservation.

In 2020, a patient at the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, Alabama wandered into a storage

area and accessed some of the frozen embryos. The patient burnt their hand from the extreme cold used to preserve the embryos and dropped them,

causing some of them to die.

Four parents of the embryos later sued the clinic for the wrongful death of these children.

This would be no different than a group of parents suing a daycare for being so lax with

safety standards that a stranger could walk in and accidentally kill their newborns.

This month the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled that human embryos qualify as children

under the state's wrongful death statutes.

While many media outlets quoted one of the concurring

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