Alabama Supreme Court Rightly Defers to State Law in Frozen Embryo Case

An employee at the clinic Eugin manipulates samples of embryos, eggs, and sperm cryopreserved in a nitrogen tank, in Barcelona, on May 25, 2016. Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 decision that a frozen embryo is a “child” under the state’s wrongful-death statute demonstrates once again that judges have to use the right method to make the right decisions.