GOP Senators Say They Support IVF—Just Not a Federal Law to Secure It
Paying lip service to protecting the procedure is the easy part. But not everyone is willing to back up their words with legislation.
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Paying lip service to protecting the procedure is the easy part. But not everyone is willing to back up their words with legislation.
The Alabama House and Senate both passed bills this week that would help people resume in vitro fertilization and provide legal protections for providers and patients in certain cases. Senate Bill 159 and its companion House Bill 237 passed swiftly despite debates surrounding immunity and personhood. While this is a positive step that allows families to resume treatments, said Heidi Miller, development manager for the reproductive-justice group Yellowhammer Fund, they're still concerned with the limited timeframe offered by the bills, including the one sponsored by Sen. ...
Time is running out for Elizabeth Goldman to have one more baby with the uterus she received in a transplant two years ago. Her IVF treatments were halted after a state Supreme Court ruling last month, and it’s a delay she says her family can’t afford.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are equal to children and clinics can be sued over the state's wrongful death act.