It's Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

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

worldview. We're quite

accustomed to seeing history change through rulings and decisions handed down by the

Supreme Court of the United States, less often by one of the Supreme Court's of the respective states.

But just in the last few days, the Alabama State Supreme Court

handed down a history-making decision which found that human embryos are covered by Alabama law and even

by the Alabama Constitution as children regardless of where an embryo may be found.

Rolling Stone has been for a long time a barometer of the culture, especially coming

from the left.

Rolling Stone ran the headline, Alabama Court says IVF that's in vitro fertilization

embryos are extra uterine children and people under the law.

Now the headline at Rolling Stone and the insinuation of the article is that this is an absolutely

bizarre development.

I assure you, it is not.

And for Christians, this is a matter that simply has to be thought through and fast and we better think

through it consistently in biblical terms. So what did the Alabama State Supreme

Court rule? It ruled that three couples each of whom had had embryos stored in Mobile by an organization

known as the Center for Reproductive Medicine.

All three of them had lost their embryos because someone with no authorization had walked

into the area where the frozen embryos were stored there in Mobile and had interrupted

the storage leading to the destruction of embryos that were owned by and controlled by.

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