Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.
Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.
Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.
“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”
If embryos are children, then every month a woman doesn’t fertilize an embryo from puberty to menopause, she’s killing a child.
I mean, that’s correct, right? That’s what this Judge is claiming. I say we roll with that narrative. Any unpregnant woman is killing a baby. LOCK HER UP! But of course the state will have to impregnate the jailed women. Otherwise they’ll be an accessory to even more murders every month, so all women in prison will also need to be pregnant.
You need to go back to HS biology. An unfertilized egg is exactly that an egg.
You need both an egg and sperm to make an embryo.
Menstruation happens BECAUSE there isn’t an embryo.
I don’t agree with the ruling any more than the next guy but this take is just dumb.
Comments like the one above, and upvotes on those comments, are shocking common in threads about this ruling. I wonder how many people in America don’t remember their grade school biology, or didn’t get taught this.
I also wonder how much this is playing into America’s abortion laws. If people don’t understand the grade school biology, how can they possibly make an informed decision at the ballot box?
They seem to understand that a embryo is a fertilized egg, I think they are just pointing out the next logical step would be to arrest any woman who doesn’t get her eggs fertilized and any man who spills his sperm on the ground because that’s children being murdered…
Agreed. There’s plenty to be upset about without also inventing things the way conservatives often do.
And getting things wrong just gives them the opportunity to dismiss everything you say based upon a single flaw they can latch upon: “Oh, clearly you haven’t done enough research into the topic to be taken seriously.”
Embryos are the stage of development after fertilization.