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By Russell Shaw, EWTN News, March 11, 2024

Russell Shaw Russell Shaw is a veteran journalist and author of more than 20 books. He was secretary for public affairs of the U.S. bishops’ conference from 1969 to 1987 and director of information of the Knights of Columbus from 1987 to 1997. …

The Alabama IVF case was not directly about abortion, but it has helped set the stage for two new U.S. Supreme Court cases that are.

Russell ShawCome right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident: A human embryo is either a human person or well along in the process of becoming one. In either case, the embryo enjoys fundamental legal rights of personhood, including the right to life.

That occurred to me again while reflecting on the furor over an Alabama Supreme Court’s decision asserting the legal personhood of unborn human beings in a case involving in vitro fertilization — IVF for short. Pro-lifers were predictably gratified, while pro-choicers predictably threw a fit. …