TL;DR
South Carolina House bill 5725, introduced March 19, stipulates that individual/group life insurance companies extend policies to embryos, endowing them with the same individual rights as born children.
When I first saw this article, I was horrified. When I got halfway through and saw it was a Democrat who co-sponsored the bill, I thought it was a joke. By the time I got to the end, I was horrified again.
Published in Newsweek, the article continues:
"Over the years with our own abortion debates here in South Carolina, because in South Carolina, we want to say that life begins at conception, and we've been banning abortions. But when I say that life begins at conception, well, that means that when life begins, that these unborn children should be afforded every single right that you and I have," Democratic Representative Jermaine Johnson said, according to a report by ABC4 News.
Johnson also said that embryos should be given a Social Security number as well as being capable of acquiring life insurance, allowing them "to have these different types of rights that you and I have."
Giving his reasoning for the bill, Johnson pointed to the February 6 Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declared frozen embryos created using IVF are considered children and was further quoted as saying:
"We saw in Alabama where they ruled that frozen embryos could be considered people, and this is one of the things that we need to make sure that we're protecting individuals here in South Carolina," Johnson said. "Because we know we kind of follow suit in these, in these states with introducing legislation.
Yah, we all know.