An Alabama hospital pauses in vitro fertilization after a court decision. The state Supreme Court ruled last week that frozen embryos must be considered people.
One of the judges, in fact, relied on the Bible to argue that no human life can be destroyed because it contains all the image of God "even before being born," as he wrote in a concurring opinion. Alabama is one of 21 states in the country, however, that still allow the death penalty, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.