Ala. Supreme Court: ‘Unborn Child Has Inalienable Right to Life From its Earliest Stages’

Ala. Supreme Court: ‘Unborn Child Has Inalienable Right to Life From its Earliest Stages’
In a case about a pregnant woman who used cocaine and endangered her unborn child, the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed (8-1) that the word “child” includes “an unborn child,” and that the law therefore “furthers the State’s interest in protecting the life of children from the earliest stages of their development.”