Subject: Re: Frozen embryos are children!
Chief Justice Parker misquoted his God. This is a pet peeve of mine, often news articles only give a snip of a person's statement. A full sentence should always be quoted. Chief Justice Parker is twisting his God's words and misleading people. But Chief Justice Parker gets regularly elected by the people of Alabama who must like his comforting words.

Of course, I think words written almost 3000 years ago have no place in a modern legal argument. The Bible is not the law. Judges should stick to interpreting actual law as it applies to actual cases today. Judges should not use science fiction or hypotheticals to support their rulings. Give the legislature a chance to write laws if needed to address new technologies like the imagined babies brought to term in a test tube.

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Chief Justice Parker wrote "It is as if the People of Alabama took what was spoken of the prophet Jeremiah and applied it to every unborn person in this state: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, Before you were born I sanctified you." Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV 1982)"
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But Jeremiah 1:4 1:5 King James Version (KJV) only applies to one person, Jeremiah: “Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.'”

Taking God's words about one person and applying them to everyone seems like blasphemy. Is Chief Justice Parker really saying everyone is the same as Jeremiah in God's eyes?

The Science Fiction argument:
"For instance, one latent implication of the defendants' position -- though not one that the defendants seem to have anticipated -- is that, under the defendants' test, even a full-term infant or toddler conceived through IVF and gestated to term in an in vitro environment would not qualify as a "child" or "person," because such a child would both be (1) "unborn" (having never been delivered from a biological womb) and (2) not "in utero.""
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Putting GOD into the Alabama constitution, but not saying which GOD.
"At the time § 36.06 was adopted, "sanctity" was defined as: "1. holiness of life and character: GODLINESS"
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