Alabama health system pauses IVF treatments after court embryo ruling

After Alabama Supreme Court’s Embryo Personhood Ruling, What Comes Next?

Crystal Light John Paul II said that “‘frozen’ embryos ... remain the subjects of essential rights and should therefore be protected by law as human persons.” An Alabama Supreme Court decision that established the personhood of frozen embryos drew praise from pro-life groups. The possible wider effects of the decision, meanwhile, remain shrouded in uncertainty.

The Alabama supreme court justices behind IVF ruling

Nine Republicans on the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos have the same rights as children.

The weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last week that frozen embryos stored in labs count as children is sending “shock waves” through the fertility industry and stoking fears that in vitro fertilization is getting swept up into the abortion debate. The New York…

Leaders of Knoxville-based National Embryo Donation Center react to Alabama court ruling

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — There has been major fallout across the nation after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized, un-implanted embryos are children. Now, clinics and families going the assisted reproduction route are trying to figure out the larger implications of this decision. "it's very important obviously for those going through infertility to have options, because you don't always know for sure what you're willing to do until …

Alabama Medical Association urges reevaluation of court’s IVF embryo ruling

In an unprecedented move that reverberates through the corridors of reproductive health and rights, the Alabama Supreme Court has issued a ruling that categorizes frozen embryos as “children,” thereby granting them the same legal rights as other “unborn children.” This landmark decision emerged from a case that saw the accidental destruction of several embryos at a fertility clinic in Mobile, The Center for Reproductive Medicine, sparking a lega…