He's a monster but so is Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, the a-hat scripture-quoting evangelical who wrote the recent opinion banning IVF in Alabama so women who can't conceive can no longer have children.

Parker wrote that Alabama had adopted a “theologically based view of the sanctity of life” and that “life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.” To support his legal opinion, Parker repeatedly cited the book of Genesis, including a passage asserting that all people are created in God’s image.

“Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God,” Parker wrote, “and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”