00:00 "This is a cause of great concern for anyone that cares about people's reproductive rights
00:06 and abortion care."
00:08 That's Pregnancy Justice Director Dana Sussman talking to the Washington Post about an Alabama
00:13 Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered people.
00:18 Center for Reproductive Rights Attorney Gail Deedee told NBC News that the new ruling "does
00:23 not appear to create criminal liability for IVF providers."
00:28 Rather, it's people who could be sued for destroying embryos.
00:32 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the New York Times the ruling would cause
00:37 "exactly the type of chaos that we expected when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
00:43 and paved the way for politicians to dictate some of the most personal decisions families
00:49 can make."
00:50 See, this chatter about embryos being people started when the Alabama case focused on whether
00:56 a patient who mistakenly dropped and destroyed other couples' frozen embryos could be held
01:01 liable in a wrongful death lawsuit.
01:03 The Washington Post reported that the court ruled "unborn children are children" and that
01:09 that was also true for frozen embryos.
01:12 The fertilized eggs, therefore, have the same protection as babies under the wrongful death
