Second Alabama Fertility Clinic Stops In Vitro Fertilization After Embryo Ruling—Here's What We Know
Alabama Fertility Specialists announced the pause Thursday in a Facebook post.
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Alabama Fertility Specialists announced the pause Thursday in a Facebook post.
The Alabama Supreme Court's decision on frozen embryos interpreted the state law's text, rightly leaving policy decisions to the legislature.
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.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments.