Authorities have begun an investigation into the detonation of an explosive device adjacent to the office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) on Saturday morning.
State and local law enforcement will conduct a thorough investigation as Marshall confirmed that there were no injuries resulting from the incident.
Investigators have not identified any suspects or determined any motives. The bombing came one day after Marshall confirmed he would not prosecute IVF providers and fertility clinics in Alabama after the state supreme court ruled embryos are children.
As The New York Times reports:
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, which is investigating the explosion, said it received a report on Monday morning about a suspicious package near the intersection of Washington Avenue and South Bainbridge Street in Montgomery.
“It was determined that the suspicious package was an explosive device that was detonated in the early morning hours of Saturday, Feb. 24,” the agency said in a statement on Monday evening. “Nothing further is available as the investigation remains ongoing.”
The Alabama Supreme Court ruling — which was issued earlier this month in appeals cases brought by couples whose embryos were destroyed at a fertility clinic in Mobile — has shaken the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt over fertility care for would-be parents in Alabama and raising complex legal questions. It has also led some clinics in the state to halt I.V.F. treatments and has left many women in limbo.
On Friday, the attorney general’s office moved to ease some of those anxieties. Mr. Marshall “has no intention of using the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision as a basis for prosecuting I.V.F. families or providers,” Katherine Robertson, the office’s chief counsel, said in a statement.
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