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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza

Group tied to anti-abortion Trump mega-donors pours money into Alabama supreme court race

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A protest rally on 28 February outside the Alabama supreme court after it ruled frozen embryos were ‘children’. Photograph: Mickey Welsh/AP

A group connected to anti-abortion, billionaire Trump mega-donors has funneled more than half a million dollars to an Alabama supreme court judicial candidate who said “embryos were human beings whose lives begin at fertilization”.

Alabama’s supreme court was thrust into the limelight earlier this month when eight of the court’s nine justices ruled that embryos created for in vitro fertilization (IVF) were “extrauterine children” in the eyes of the law.

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