The Alabama Supreme Court used a case involving frozen embryos to claim that a zygote (fertilized egg) was a child. The Court stated the defense of this decision in religious language. It argued that human beings have borne God's image from the moment of conception. However, from a scientific standpoint, pregnancy does not even begin until a few days after a zygote has attached itself to the uterine wall. Science tells us even that does not immediately produce a child but a potential one.