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Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic, the Alabama supreme court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law.
As a result, several Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.
The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives – not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).
All these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America’s basic separation of church and state.
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They don’t just want a theocracy; they’re well on their way to making it happen.
They want a dictatorship. They are just using theocracy as a stepping stone.
Don’t worry, I’m sure that theocracy will merely be a road bump to a leftist Utopia.
Wow, those 3 other people are horrible. “Permissiveness”?
Nah, no one could’ve seen it coming. There’s nothing we can do it, it’s caught everyone completely off guard.
Duh
Nice that people are starting to notice, I suppose.
Better late to the party than a no show I suppose.
Can someone please explain how this is any different from a county imposing Sharia law‽ Pretty sure the right is vehemently against that occuring. Why are their morals different, in the end it’s trying to control through religion.
Well you see, Sharia Law is imposed by brown people, so God hates it. Jesus was white, American, and a registered Republican, so God loves the brand of extremist Christian theocracy the GOP will bring upon us.
/s
Don’t forget 2A and supply side
It’s exactly the same. But because it’s their god it’s somehow different, but it’s not.
Its the same God, though, isn’t it? Just their book?
Abrahamic religions 101:
Judaism religion v1.0 Christianity religion v2.0 Islam religion v3.0
There is literally no way of knowing.
We know it’s the same god the same way we know it’s the same Emperor Palpaptine in Revenge of the Sith, Return of the Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
There is, actually. You see, since men wrote all the books, thankfully they’ve made it clear in the Quran that it’s a sequel, same-universe cannon.
Ironically, since we know from the literature, we do literally have a way to know
Oh… yea. My bad. :D
Some dude named Dave knew, but he died without telling anyone in 1973 🤷
Damn it Dave!
Yeah, he was a total dick. He also heated fish in the break room microwave.
I don’t mean some scientific objective same God.
They are both based off Abrahamic origins. They literally believe in the same God. They just disagree in a lot of interpretations and how to respect and worship him.
Considering the 3 big ones feature the same cast of saints and holy figures, I’d say it’s more likely than not that it is the same God.
From my understanding of the various religions and offshoots, yes, it is in theory the same God. They also feature the same saints and holy figures across the 3 big ones though in the Quran Jesus is a saint or similar but not our savior or the son of God and God in the same package, etc.
Have you seen the south Park multiparter about the atheist otters?
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Any of these Christians at any rate.
The Republican party
wants to turnis actively turning America.into a theocracyRepublicans also want to bring back 19th century Company Towns. Then, they will fill them with obedient workers, who they can pay as little as they want and abuse as much as they like.
This is why they overturned Roe vs Wade and they’re going after contraception next. They need citizen’s to breed.
They need citizen’s what to breed?
Their apostrophes!
When was the last time people were in doubt about that? Conservatives have been trying to pass laws that affect everyone based on their confused religious moralism for decades. Things like “blue laws” (banning sales of alcohol on Sunday) are connected to Christians trying to impose their religious ideas on people. Or the idea that someone’s testimony or oath can’t be believed if not sworn on a bible.
Media keeps telling me how moderate Haley is.
And always trying to rationalize it as not religious. Fucking maddening.
Did you ever see that one politician who swore up and down that America is a Christian nation because you swear into office on the Bible? Complete deer in headlights look when the interviewer explained that the Bible was an option, not a requirement.
The people that want a theocracy want it based on their religion and their interpretation of that religion. This way they can present what they want as what god wants and that gives them complete control over you since you have to obey god.
And look how these purported Christians interpret to their advantage in their day to day lives. I know real Christians. They’re among my closest friends and family.
This isn’t Christian theocracy. It’s demonic theocracy.
Hail Satan!
They should be careful what they wish for. There are estimated to be at least 200 Christian Denominations in the USA and 45,000 globally. If they ever succeeded in making this nation a theocracy, it would be a bloodbath in under a week as each denomination tries to make all the others adhere to their own interpretations.
May the lord open.
Everything is always doom and gloom and fire and brimstone with Republicans. Apparently that appeals to a lot of people.
Yes, they do. Not just since yesterday.
Always has been.
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
frozen embryos
chilling example
Nice.
