Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’

(CNN) —Republican presidential candidate& Nikki Haley& on Wednesday sided with the Alabama Supreme Court& ruling that frozen embryos are children& and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death.“I mean, I think embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley said during a pull aside interview with NBC News as she described that she used artificial insemination to have her son, a different process than in vitro fertilization (IVF).“I had artificial insemination. That’s how I had my son. So, when you look at, one thing is to save sperm or to save eggs. But when you talk about an embryo, you are talking about, to me, that’s a life. So, I do see where that’s coming from when they talk about that,” she added.Haley later Wednesday attempted to clarify those remarks but reiterated her stance that she believes an embryo is “an unborn baby.”“I didn’t say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling. What the question that I was asked is, ‘Do I believe an embryo is a baby?’ I do think that if you look in the definition an embryo is considered an unborn baby,” she said in an interview on CNN’s “King Charles.”Haley then argued that the...