Posted on 02/28/2024 11:47:32 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker issued the following concurring opinion in a case last week that ruled 8-1 that unborn children are human beings and the state’s wrongful death law can include them when it comes to destroying human embryos at an IVF fertility clinic.
PARKER, Chief Justice (concurring specially).
A good judge follows the Constitution instead of policy, except when the Constitution itself commands the judge to follow a certain policy. In these cases, that means upholding the sanctity of unborn life, including unborn life that exists outside the womb.
Our state Constitution contains the following declaration of public policy: “This state acknowledges, declares, and affirms that it is the public policy of this state to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including the right to life” (sometimes referred to as “the Sanctity of Unborn Life Amendment”).
Meaning of ‘sanctity’ The Alabama Constitution does not expressly define the phrase “sanctity of unborn life.” The goal of constitutional interpretation is to discern the original public meaning, which is “‘the meaning the people understood a provision to have at the time they enacted it.’ ” Constitutional interpretation must start with the text, but it also must include the context of the time in which it was adopted?…
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Amen.
I am reading some type of science they are trying to make robots into human beings. redo the wording to say what they are doing..
they say they will be able to do things .. a mind? like humans. ????
IN the bible, there was a plan.. in the early times of this earth..some started building a stairway or way.. to Heaven.
God saw them and said “let’s go down there..” they did and stopped their plans..
in humans..babies being born.. they have a spirit.. no one can make anything and give it a spirit... of God. In that case, we have a spirit from the day God has given for all to have a spirit.. when we die, at whatever age, our spirit does not die.. just our earthly bodies.
My son died a few years ago, and before he went to Glory, God took him on a trip to Heaven. He saw family members. loved ones.. they did not have an earthly body.. they were in a spirit body, which looked just like the earthly one.
I’m in favor of this opinion. I’m also in favor of IVF _in_general_. What I’m opposed to is the practice of creating any more fertilized eggs than absolutely necessary in order to accomplish the desired goal.
I’m not well-versed in the practice, for sure, and I understand that there’s a strong failure rate (60-80%!), but I suppose that rate itself should raise the question: is this the right way to go?
(Ducks and prepares for the worst)
It is not comprehensible to me that when that little sperm crawls into that little egg, it is not in God's hands from that time until natural death (and even beyond death).
How can any sane person argue otherwise?
I suspect there will be more stories like this leading up to the 2024 election. The net effect will be to drive white urban and suburban women to vote Democrat.
interesting that those in cryogenic suspension are still considered human, but embryos not.
Thank you, sir.
And GOD BLESS YOU!!!1!
sounds like Alabama may have an honest judge
A very loud amen 🙏🏻!
big words sometimes hide God’s clarity. God knew from the foundation of the world when an egg would be fertilized and life/spirit breathed into the same. i’m convinced by the Word, that that’s a human baby to God. i would expect to meet all those individuals in heaven someday.
therefore, all the people responsible for that moment of conception have that baby’s blood on their head if they willingly cause harm to him/her. being a parent is a grave responsibility.
A fertilized egg is merely a fertilized egg. It doesn’t become a child until it implants in a womb. Otherwise, every time a fertilized egg fails to attach that would mean a child has been killed. That’s nonsense.
And yet the Governor and legislature are working at warp speed to not interfere with IVF being able to be done in the state.
The bigger question is, if it is a child, what becomes of its soul? Whether in fertilized egg status or having attached to the uterine wall or aborted?
That is a big question. One that only God knows the answer to.
Is IVF playing God, or did God give us the knowledge for IVF?
When does a soul enter the body?
Why are some children born to loving families regardless of economic status and others born to abusive or unloving homes
I have a whole lot of questions to ask the Almighty and I’m sure He will find my unending questions as annoying as my earthly father.
The primary purpose of the Constitution is to secure the right to life for ourselves and our posterity.
It is unconscionable to swear fealty to our nation and its Constitution, and then advocate for abortion.
*These* are the people who should be kept off of ballots and away from a voting booth.
There's only one scripture that comes close to answering the soul question. In the case of Adam, God breathed a soul into him. My guess is that's the allegory referring to when we gasp that first breath upon entering the world.
Amen.
But that was Adam and he was never conceived, he was created.
My personal opinion is when it attaches to the womb, it has the first and only opportunity to become a human being. A frozen embryo is static. Whether for a year or a thousand years it remains exactly the same. Growth can only occur when it attaches. I think that is God breathing life. But that is only my puny mind trying to make sense of the incredible miracle of life.
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