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Fertility services are worried that patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages for IVF treatments after a court ruling.

More in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama have paused parts of their treatment after the state Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally considered children. Alabama Fertility Services said in

Fertility services are worried that patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages for IVF treatments after a court ruling.

The decisions come a day after the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it was pausing IVF treatment.

The Alabama Supreme Court stunned the nation earlier this week by ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. The decision has vast implications not only for abortion rights in Alabama, but also for treatments like in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which help couples struggling with infertility to conceive children. Some fertility clinics in Alabama have already paused the service while they analyze the full implications of the ruling.Monday’s ruling is a watershed moment for t...

A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of

Two more IVF providers in Alabama have paused parts of their treatment, sending patients scrambling to make other plans after the state Supreme Court ruled that […]

More in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama have paused parts of their treatment after the state Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally considered children. Alabama Fertility Services said in a statement Thursday that the clinic “made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists." The Center for Reproductive Medicine at Mobile Infirmary also has decided to pause IVF treatment because of the ruling. ...

Justices, citing anti-abortion language in the Alabama Constitution, ruled that an 1872 state law allowing parents to sue over the death of a minor child “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.”

Frozen embryos created during fertility treatments can be considered children under Alabama state law, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday.