This is a weird one - while normally the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on what is or isn't Children would get solidly binned in the "culture war" bucket, this feels more like a weird legal system workaround like the river being granted personhood - the case came from a couple trying to sue a fertility clinic because their embryos were destroyed by some incredibly, incredibly negligent shit on the part of the facility. I'm guessing "Wrongful Death" was the only way the couple could show sufficient harm for standing in the case, and the facility argued it couldn't apply because embryos weren't actually children, so the ruling here is most likely intended to let the couple sue the facility. I'm not even sure I oppose it - for the couple, this may well have been their last chance to have kids, so I imagine the distinction for them between this and, say, a gynecologist's negligence leading to the same result is soft.<p>That said, again, I get why people would maybe read more into this, and precedence is a helluva drug.