Ruling highlights how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes.
With the recent Alabama Supreme Court "personhood" decision, clinicians and patients say they fear they may be vulnerable to prosecution based on their handling of frozen embryos used in the IVF process. In its ruling, the court stated that "unborn children are 'children' … without exception b...
“No court — anywhere in the country — has reached the conclusion the main opinion reaches,” he wrote, adding the ruling “almost certainly ends the creation of frozen embryos through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama.” The Alabama Supreme Court decision partly hinged on anti-abortion...
Earlier Thursday, Mr. Biden's presidential campaign connected the ruling to former President Donald Trump, who reshaped the U.S. Supreme Court by appointing three conservative justices. "What is happening in Alabama right now is only possible because Donald Trump's Supreme Court justices overturned...
A Washington Post report said that there is “widespread shock, anger and confusion” throughout Alabama in the aftermath of Friday’s state Supreme Court ruling. The Associated Press highlighted a woman in Auburn who turned to IVF after three miscarriages, who began...
Lawmakers said IVF providers have told them that the protections are enough to get them to resume services. Alabama Supreme Court ruling Last month, the Supreme Court found that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments can be considered children under Alabama state law. The decision, issued...
In the legislature's upper chamber, Melson said he was looking to help women who have already begun the IVF process but have now seen several clinics in the state suspend or limit services following the state Supreme Court's ruling. The Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on ...
Two health experts from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy are available to discuss what the Alabama Supreme Court's landmark ruling on frozen embryos could mean for the rest of the country and for the science of human embryo research.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the state wants to foster a culture of life and that includes "couples hoping and praying to be parents who utilize IVF." Alabama Attorney General Marshall doesn't intend to prosecute IVF providers or families based on the state Supreme Court ruling, Chief Counsel ...
Why Alabama's Embryo Ruling Endangers IVF TreatmentsFebruary 23, 2024 An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any mino...