You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective.

Today we're going to talk about a court ruling in Alabama that decided embryos are children.

We're also going to talk about a controversial funeral at St. Patrick's

Cathedral in New York City for a man who identified as transgender. We have a

lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Coulson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street,

president of the Coulson Center.

John, there was a huge ruling out of an Alabama court this week.

That's what I want to start the show with today,

because this has wide implications not just for the IVF industry and assisted reproduction more generally,

but also for the pro-life movement and for the way that the country legally approaches

the question of when life begins.

So just to set some background here,

there was an IVF clinic in Mobile, Alabama

and a patient somehow got access to an area they were not supposed to

have access to and began wandering around and knocked over a handful of vials of embryos. So these are fertilized eggs that are being

frozen at the facility which is common practice at pretty much every IVF

clinic around the country.

And when the embryos were destroyed,

three couples sued the clinic under Alabama's

wrongful death of a minor act.

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