It's Monday,

Monday, February 26, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The unfolding story coming out of the state of Alabama after that state Supreme Court

ruled that frozen embryos destroyed in a laboratory

in what was declared to be an accident

do represent a civil liability.

It doesn't matter where a human embryo is.

It is a human embryo.

And Alabama law, the High Court reminded the rest of the state

and thus the nation, has for a very long time

in terms of the common law, but also in terms

more recently, the Alabama Constitution,

it makes very clear that unborn children are children.

Now remember, this is a case about civil liability, and so destroying embryonic children, the children outside the womb, it still comes with legal consequence because it really doesn't matter where the embryos are found according to this logic.

Wherever they are found, to this logic wherever they are found they're

human embryos and thus are to be recognized and protected as such. Now the

reality is that that's an invincible argument. It's an invincible logic.

If you accept that a human being becomes a human being

at the moment of fertilization, when God says,

let there be life, then you are responsible for all of the consequences

and entailments of that conviction and I just want to point out that's what

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