Alabama Supreme Court chief justice's embryo ruling is refreshing defense of life

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that correctly identified and defined human embryos as persons has elicited strong and defiant reactions from abortion activists. The case in question involves a lawsuit brought by James and Emily Page, Alabama parents whose frozen embryos were destroyed following a break-in at Mobile’s Center for Reproductive Medicine. The decision by Chief Justice Tom Parker declared frozen embryos to be “extrauterine children,” and therefore protected under Alabama law. Chief Parker’s decision was carefully and thoroughly argued, an elegant and robust defense of innocent life...