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Meghan Cole was looking forward to Friday this week because her surrogate was finally scheduled for an embryo transfer.

Meghan Cole was looking forward to Friday this week because her surrogate was finally scheduled for an embryo transfer.

Several fertility clinics and embryo shipping services plan to hold off on sending embryos from Alabama to other states following a court ruling that said embryos created through IVF are children.

“We are saddened that this will impact our patients’ attempt to have a baby through IVF, but we must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos are children, the health system said in a statement to CNN.

The decision makes UAB the first known organization in the state to confirm it is pausing the treatment.

(CNN) — The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos are children, the

Alabama's High Court ruled Feb. 16 that frozen embryos are “children” for the purposes of a wrongful death lawsuit. The decision reverses two lower court rulings.

The states supreme court found that the destruction of frozen embryos violated state laws. IVF providers are now unsure of how the law might be interpreted in future cases.

The UAB health system paused in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are children.