# Alabama LePage and Cryopreserved Embryos **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Alabama / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A — binding state high-court holding in specified statutory context ## Definition **Alabama LePage and Cryopreserved Embryos** is the 2024 Alabama Supreme Court holding that the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to extrauterine embryos kept in cryogenic storage. ## Continuity Significance For continuity analysis, the case is important because protected life is recognized in an infrastructure-dependent suspended state outside ordinary embodiment. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The litigation arose after cryopreserved embryos in a fertility facility were destroyed. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not generalize the holding into universal fetal constitutional personhood or digital personhood. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Cryopreserved Embryo Personhood|Cryopreserved Embryo Personhood]] · [[wiki/Fetal Personhood as Boundary Precedent|Fetal Personhood as Boundary Precedent]] · [[wiki/Relational Stewardship|Relational Stewardship]] · [[wiki/Dormancy Rights|Dormancy Rights]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/supreme-court/2024/sc-2022-0579.html <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->