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50. And they can't get to heaven until they've been baptized.

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 23, 2024, 04:58 PM

Feb 2024

Sounds like an eternity in Purgatory.

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Current IVF patients in Alabama can no longer even transport existing embryos to other states. [View all] Nevilledog Feb 2024 OP

Are they under arrest? Being held hostage? getagrip_already Feb 2024 #1

Well since they are children and minors............................ Lovie777 Feb 2024 #4

Ahh, pro life, of course getagrip_already Feb 2024 #8

I think the embryo children need to hire an attorney. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #19

They should be legal if they've been kept on ice for 18 years or more. Buns_of_Fire Feb 2024 #6

And what happened to "parents' rights"?? lastlib Feb 2024 #28

If you could find a company willing to make the move, you could. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #35

Hard to believe they didn't know what the ramifications of this ruling would be Walleye Feb 2024 #2

They don't care. Nevilledog Feb 2024 #3

I guess they think they will get their reward in heaven Walleye Feb 2024 #7

29 virgin embryos in the afterlife..... getagrip_already Feb 2024 #10

Good one! Walleye Feb 2024 #11

What if parents want to take their zygote babies to Disney? A_Woman_from_MI Feb 2024 #5

that is a pretty brilliant argumement obamanut2012 Feb 2024 #13

I really don't get this Mz Pip Feb 2024 #9

And do the parents have any say in what happens to these embryos? Walleye Feb 2024 #12

As long as the parents are 100% on board with their Dominionist agenda, tanyev Feb 2024 #51

They will seize them and adopt them out obamanut2012 Feb 2024 #14

The GOP will sell them for adoption. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #17

half way expecting AL to offer shorter prison sentences to women in exchange for gestating unused IVF embryos. Attilatheblond Feb 2024 #40

Wouldn't that be kidnapping? sheshe2 Feb 2024 #43

Isn't it very expensive to keep them frozen? Who pays the bill forever? Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #15

Just think--I could've inherited my brother! lastlib Feb 2024 #29

Right, we are forced to keep our siblings frozen for as long as they live. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #39

This is a great point Alpeduez21 Feb 2024 #37

The taxpayer will end up footing the bill. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #53

Not paying your frozen embryo bill drmeow Feb 2024 #52

But freezing your child is felony child abuse. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #54

Or be chalked up as not paying child support. TheKentuckian Feb 2024 #60

My prediction Nevilledog Feb 2024 #16

Weird Mz Pip Feb 2024 #21

3 couples had embryos destroyed when another clinic patient dropped them. Nevilledog Feb 2024 #23

Thank you Mz Pip Feb 2024 #25

I think your right but if these are "children" in Alabama, parents should be able to move them Arazi Feb 2024 #24

It's not that they are barred from being moved. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #31

A pound of dry ice and YETI cooler coprolite Feb 2024 #46

I do like that solution. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #65

I fully expect that the state will offer women in prison reduced sentences in return for use of their uterus to gestate Attilatheblond Feb 2024 #41

You can buy a child frozen or cooked. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #55

The way the authoritarians are going, such options might not be out of the realm of fesibility Attilatheblond Feb 2024 #57

Yes a logical conclusion to the current facts. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #58

And they can't get to heaven until they've been baptized. Probatim Feb 2024 #50

Oh my yes. The frozen children must be baptized immediately. Irish_Dem Feb 2024 #56

That is pretty much the Catholics. Many to most other sects are less adamant about baptism. TheKentuckian Feb 2024 #61

Build up enough of them and start some bizarre forced birth pogrom? TheKentuckian Feb 2024 #59

Pauses on embryo transfers out of Alabama leave IVF patients with few options mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 #18

Isn't that kidnapping and unlawful restraint? Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2024 #20

They aren't forced to keep them in AL. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #32

AL is gonna get 'em either way... Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2024 #36

They collectively need a class-action MOMFUDSKI Feb 2024 #22

Clinic should start shipping frozen embryos Johonny Feb 2024 #26

The problem is the lack of anyone with the ability to ship them. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #33

Wouldn't that be considered interference mercuryblues Feb 2024 #27

The parents still have custodial rights. Gore1FL Feb 2024 #34

Does the Alabama Court decision actually end IVF, or is it just so unclear right now, Silent Type Feb 2024 #30

I don't see it exactly as banned but you are on the hook TheKentuckian Feb 2024 #62

Thanks for the nuanced response. Honestly, think I'd rather be conceived somewhere besides Alabama. Silent Type Feb 2024 #63

You're quite welcome and just giving what I parse here. TheKentuckian Feb 2024 #64

Someone on Thom Hartmann today cannabis_flower Feb 2024 #38

Words from an IVF patient in Colorado... TSExile Feb 2024 #42

They especially can't be transported if they've been implanted. limbicnuminousity Feb 2024 #44

Im sure it already being discussed coprolite Feb 2024 #49

It's all about FREEDUMB! flashman13 Feb 2024 #45

When the clinic closes for lack of patients Delmette2.0 Feb 2024 #47

So now the way Alassippi moniss Feb 2024 #48