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

Organization affiliated with Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein spends half a million on candidate who believes life begins at fertilization

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.