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The Texas Supreme Court is considering<\/a> whether or not to take up the case<\/a> of Caroline Antoun who is seeking personhood for her frozen embryos. The embryos are currently the property of Antoun’s ex-husband, Gaby Antoun, as the IVF contract had stated he would get custody in the event of a divorce. Antoun, however, is asking that the embryos be considered persons<\/a> and placed in her custody.<\/p>\n

The former couple had welcomed twins through IVF and kept three remaining embryos frozen. Antoun said she did not fully understand the gravity of the contract she had signed regarding embryo custody and had hoped that the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em> just five days before their divorce trial began would impact the judge’s decision and allow her to keep the embryos. She argues that Texas’ pro-life law protecting most children from abortion beginning at fertilization also protects frozen embryos. However, the end of\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em> did not change laws regarding frozen embryos or the IVF process — even in pro-life states such as Texas<\/a> — and a judge ruled the embryos to be the property of her ex-husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that Roe is no longer law, the Court has the opportunity to reclassify embryos as unborn children rather than property, and to, after far too long, recognize and protect the rights of those unborn children and their parents,\u201d Caroline Antoun’s attorneys stated in their petition to the Texas Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Gaby Antoun’s attorney, Patrick Wright, however, argued that the case isn’t about abortion. “This is a family issue,” he said, “and if \u2014 and it’s a big if \u2014 the courts are getting involved, they\u2019d be doing essentially the thing that has been complained about for years, which is adding something that’s not there.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Illinois House passes bill claiming abortion is a \u2018stabilizing treatment\u2019 in emergency<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine wrote an amicus brief in support of Gaby Antoun, stating, \u201cRecognizing \u2018personhood\u2019 status for a frozen embryo, as requested by Petitioner, would upend IVF in Texas.” The group argued that to do so would \u201cinject untenable uncertainty into whether and on what terms IVF clinics can continue to operate in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Alabama, the state Supreme Court recently determined<\/a> that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, allowing parents in the state to file a lawsuit if their embryos are destroyed accidentally or without their consent. Some fertility clinics in the state halted IVF procedures as a result, though the ruling did not prohibit IVF, and only allowed parents to sue for damages should their embryos be wrongfully destroyed.<\/p>\n

In reality, the destruction of any human embryo is wrong and unethical. From the moment of fertilization, every human life deserves to be protected and defended.<\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30 seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether or not to take up the case of Caroline Antoun who is seeking personhood for her frozen embryos. The embryos are currently the property of Antoun’s ex-husband, Gaby Antoun, as the IVF contract had stated he would get custody in the event of a divorce. 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