It's not just the IVF people; it's everybody

A lot has been written about the Alabama “person-hood” declaration for in vitro fertilized embryos from the perspective of the couples attempting to become parents. So far, not much from the perspective of everybody else. There are lots of folks in Alabama that have nothing to do with IVF. Hypothetically, John and Jill Doe could spend almost all their money at the fertility clinic, have five viable blastocysts on ice there, and get T-boned by a drunk driver on their way home from the clinic. They are both killed. At a rate of several thousand dollars a year, each, the taxpayers of Alabama would get to maintain those frozen cells forever. I wonder how many Alabamian people signed on for this responsibility. As a taxpayer in Virginia, I know that I haven’t.