Everything you think you know about the Alabama IVF Supreme Court case is wrong.

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

And gentlemen, this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com as always.

Bill, Steve, I started doing some research into this case, which most people have heard of under a headline, like I heard on NPR this morning, that basically said it's the lead line said that the Alabama Supreme Court declared that embryos are children.

And so I actually got a little zany about it. I read several different news sources.

Crazy me.

Then I decided to read the actual opinion written by the Supreme Court.

I did not read all of the concurring opinions or partially concurring opinions.

It was like, I think, a seven to one decision by the Alabama Supreme Court.

But I did read the court's main opinion. And Stephen Green,

I find it interesting. First of all, the court did not declare embryos to be children. The

court did not declare that the destruction of embryos was a crime. The court did not restrict in vitro fertilization procedures, and the upshot of it is,

I'll give you a brief background on the case. There's a clinic in a hospital, a patient at that

hospital somehow wanders into this place where they store in vitro fertilization embryos. These embryos are

created essentially in a petri dish and then frozen at a certain stage of development so that they

can be implanted later. Anyway, patient at the hospital wanders in there, manages to open up one of

these containers and take out some of the embryos.

They were so cold, however, the freezer burn caused the patient to drop them, the embryos hit the floor, and they die.

So the case was a lawsuit by several of the parents of those children against the clinic and against the hospital,

basically saying, you killed our babies.

And they sued under the constitution, I'm sorry, a law from 1872 called the wrongful death of a minor act, I believe, if I'm quoting that correctly,

and basically said that their children were killed, and therefore they should be able to sue for

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