An investigation was launched after an explosive device was detonated outside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office over the weekend. The detonation reportedly took place early Saturday morning. “In the early hours of Saturday‚ February 24‚ an explosive device was detonated outside of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office building in Montgomery. Thankfully‚ no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation‚ and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately‚” Marshall said in a statement. An explosive detonated outside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s (R) office in Montgomery. Officials noted that no one was injured in the incident. https://t.co/l6VgbEAYNf pic.twitter.com/rYaOsd9bf5 — The Hill (@thehill) February 27‚ 2024 AL.com reports: Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sgt. Jeremy Burkett said the State Bureau of investigation was notified about the incident at 8:19 a.m. Monday. In addition to no injuries‚ Burkett said‚ there was no property damage. Troopers assigned to ALEA’s Protective Services Division and special agents assigned to ALEA’s Hazardous Device Unit‚ along with ATF agents and Montgomery police responded to the scene and deemed the area safe. Alabama attorney general says explosive device detonated outside office over weekend https://t.co/GAuJhAUpWW — Fox News (@FoxNews) February 27‚ 2024 “While a motive has not been released‚ the incident came one day after Marshall said he won’t prosecute in vitro fertilization providers or families in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that embryos should be considered children‚” ABC News reports. Alabama Attorney General Won’t Prosecute Families Using IVF https://t.co/JzriBWX0NH — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) February 24‚ 2024 Per LifeNews: After the seminal ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that the state’s wrongful death law includes unborn children and human embryos‚ the state attorney general says he won’t prosecute families using IVF. As LifeNews has reported‚ the Alabama Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that an embryo created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is a “minor child” and is no different under the law from an unborn child in the womb. Due to the 2018 Sanctity of Unborn Life Amendment in the state’s constitution‚ which declares it is “public policy” in Alabama to recognize “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children‚” the Court held that the law protects “‘the rights of the unborn child’ equally with the rights of born children.” In LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic‚ Inc.‚ the Supreme Court of Alabama faced the question of whether an unborn child being kept in a cryogenic nursery is entitled to status as a person under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization are children and entitled to the same legal rights as “unborn children‚” multiple clinics in the state suspended IVF services to consider the legal repercussions of the decision. UPDATE: Alabama Clinics Pause In Vitro Fertilization Following Supreme Court Ruling The University of Alabama at Birmingham was the first IVF provider to announce the move. “We have made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists‚” Alabama Fertility Specialists announced on social media. Mobile’s Center for Reproductive Medicine‚ the clinic sued in the court case‚ announced it would pause IVF services.