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So let me see if I follow this correctly . . .

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a frozen embryo, having been stored in the deep freeze for future intentions to fertilize for impregnation, is a child.  Therefore, if you take a test tube and try to produce a child through in-vitro fertilization, and if something goes wrong in the process and the embryo does not survive, the parents can be . . . held liable for murder?  

Wha?

So, if this ruling means that eggs are people . . . 

Therefore . . .

And then when Republicans announce that they're for IVF after having insisted they were against it, they get the chance to pass a pro-IVF bill in CONgress, and they balk at it and then kill it altogether.

Just to give you an idea of how far behind Alabama is behind the country and indeed the world, I ought to remind you that the first IVF child, Louise Brown, was conceived and born in 1978, which, in science, is a lifetime (weell, at least Louise Brown's lifetime, and she's now 45 years old, but let that pass).  This breakthrough took place in Great Britain, not the U.S., as the British have been far more accommodating of science than many people in AMerica (especially Alabama), and IVF was in fact developed both in Britain and Australia, where hte religious teachings of the Anglican Church (what we call Episcopalians) is dominant. The Anglican Church, the Web site IVF WOrldwide reports, is "more liberal on the use of IVF/ET and allows semen collection by masturbation (!) for artificial insemination by the husband for IVF . . .."

Really!

Oh yeah, by the way, France just did something today that the U.S. will never do - it made abortion a constitutional right.

If you're a Frenchwoman, you go, femme.  If you're an American woman . . . oh, well, c'est la vie.