The Consequences of Voting Church into State
My home state is now essentially a theocracy
I had to sit on this one for a day. That’s how angry I was about it. The road to get here has been horrible. The truth of the matter is — freedom from another person’s religion no longer exists in many parts of this country.
I could see this coming a mile away. People don’t understand what kind of extremists the far right really are. I feel like most people, especially outside of the Bible Belt, underestimate them.
I don’t get why they would after a majority-conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — but here we are. Restrictive abortion laws are going up in any red state that can manage it. Book bans and anti-LGBTQ laws are the new rage. Women are having a difficult time getting contraception. And in Alabama, frozen embryos are considered children.
Yeah. That’s a thing, now.
Because the law is so vague, there is no way to tell what makes up a legal offense against a bunch of frozen cells in a cryogenic container. Therefore, to avoid legal action, it makes sense for all IVF programs in the State of Alabama to shut down immediately.
In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is when clinicians remove an egg from a woman’s body and combine it with sperm inside a laboratory…
