Alabama to execute men for murder by masturbation?

Patrick W. Andersen
3 min readFeb 29, 2024

The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court declared that fertilized frozen embryos enjoy all the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as people who walk, talk, and rock around the clock.

This came in a ruling that couples who had lost frozen embryos in an accident at a storage facility had the right to sue the facility for wrongful death.

He did not say so, but the logical extension of Chief Justice Tom Parker’s ruling is that men will face the death penalty for “spilling the seed” (to use the…

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Patrick W. Andersen

Patrick W. Andersen is a writer in San Francisco. His novel, Second Born, told of the boy Jesus growing up with his brothers and sisters in Galilee.