This is what happens when pro-life Republicans play God

I would suggest that, by overwhelmingly passing a measure Thursday to protect in vitro fertilization providers and patients from criminal and civil liability, Alabama legislators are doing more than covering their asses. Alabama’s supreme court ruled recently that frozen embryos are “children” under state law, and that providers and patients can be prosecuted or sued for wrongful death of those “children.” In response, clinics across the state suspended services and procedures, sending not only hopeful parents into a panic, but Republican leaders as well. Seeing a disaster of their own making on the horizon, national “pro-life” Republican leaders, including the party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump, demanded the Alabama legislature respond swiftly. In ruling that frozen embryos are children deserving equal protection, the Alabama Supreme Court obeyed a state constitutional amendment requiring it to “construe ambiguous statutes in a way that ‘protect … the rights of the unborn child’ equally with the rights of born children.” If killing an already-born child is murder, killing an embryo is, too. If I am protected from criminal and civil liability after “murdering” an unborn child, what’s the continued point of Alabama’s complete ban on abortion?