Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that embryos frozen for purposes of in vitro fertilization count as full human children, and the GOP had a massive collective heart attack. This is bizarre because, for purposes of forbidding abortion, this same GOP has put infinite money and muscle into legislation, jurisprudence, field operations and propaganda fiercely dedicated to its supposed conviction that embryos — and zygotes and blastocysts and just about everything past a gleam in Daddy’s eye — count as full human children. Could it be that “pro-life” Republicans are far less interested in the absolute value of unborn life than in the comparative political appeal of women who desperately want children versus women who desperately don’t? Host Tish Durkin is just asking...
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