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The hospital system said it is pausing IVF treatments to “evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally.”
By Isabel Rosales, Christina Maxouris, Meg Tirrell, Chris Youd and Maxime Tamsett, CNN
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
A third fertility clinic in Alabama has halted part of its IVF treatment programs following the state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children.
A trial court initially ruled embryos weren't legally considered "children." The Alabama Supreme Court overturned this decision, permitting three couples, whose frozen embryos were destroyed after being dropped by a wandering patient at a Mobile hospital, to pursue wrongful death claims.