Re: “Frozen embryos are youngsters, Alabama court docket says in unprecedented ruling” [Feb. 20, Nation & World]:
The Alabama Supreme Courtroom dominated that frozen embryos are youngsters. By figuring out the fertilized eggs as such, the judges have unwittingly determined that tons of of 1000’s of embryos — residing human beings of their minds, the hopes of oldsters who actually need youngsters, the outcomes of totally authorized, socially and scientifically accepted actions taken earlier than this determination — are successfully incarcerated people confined in suspended animation.
Based mostly on this ruling and the considering behind it, the state should now settle for the accountability of releasing these cruelly detained youngsters from their frozen prisons. If they don’t, they’re, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, consigning harmless political prisoners to a Siberia from which there isn’t a escape. However what may launch appear to be?
James Clauss, Seattle
