Citing the plain language of the constitutional amendment, the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen fertilized eggs are people, a ruling that could open up parents, doctors and other medical officials to prosecution for supposedly killing them.

Alabama state lawmakers quickly moved to pass a new law to explicitly permit IVF. But some anti-abortion zealots object to the law and support the idea that a fertilized egg is a human life, suggesting that they may file a new lawsuit to block IVF in the state.

The abortion rights issue is a concern for Trump and his 2024 Republican campaign.

Trump often brags about engineering the repeal of Roe v. Wade because he appointed three conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He recently suggested he will back a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. But he privately acknowledges that the issue is a political “loser.”

Coincidentally, the Alabama vote came on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over a Christian conservative effort to ban mifepristone, a commonly used abortion medication.

The justices appeared to be leaning toward avoiding a ruling on the ban itself by invoking a legal technicality of whether the doctors who sued were personally affected by the use of mifepristone.

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