Ever since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that an embryo is a life, the media has tried to have it both ways. They have tried to mourn the supposed threat to IVF, which means aspiring parents will have their dreams of having a baby crushed while also denying the embryo is a life. Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC was just the latest example, as Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor condemned the ruling while embracing its logic.
Mitchell began by asking, “You were in Alabama in the wake of the ruling. You were telling heartbreaking stories. You could not, you know, get past the real pain and suffering and the uncertainty and the expense, all of that wrapped up and how do they justify this?”
While playing up the idea that IVF embryos enable people to become parents, Alcindor decried the ruling that declared that aspiring…
