Alabama House passes protections for IVF providers
- Lawmakers in Alabama are advancing a bill to protect IVF clinics from lawsuits, aiming to keep clinics open and families moving forward. The House of Representatives voted 94-6 in favor of the bill.
- Alabama Supreme Court's ruling allowing couples to pursue wrongful death lawsuits for destroyed embryos led to a pause in IVF services.
- Some Republicans are pushing for regulations on fertility clinics, while Democrats propose a constitutional amendment regarding the legal status of embryos.
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State lawmakers propose IVF protections
MORNING NEWSBREAK | A bipartisan group of state legislators in South Carolina is advocating for bills that would enshrine protections for in vitro fertilization in state law after a ruling in Alabama determined frozen embryos have the same legal rights as children. “What played out in Alabama can’t play out in South Carolina,” Senate Majority […] The post State lawmakers propose IVF protections appeared first on Charleston City Paper.
Alabama lawmakers rush to pass bill to get IVF services restarted
Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services Thursday after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law. Facing public pressure to get IVF...
Alabama Legislature Passes IVF Protections Bill
'an individual or entity that provides services related to in vitro fertilization shall have criminal and civil immunity to the extent the individual or entity follows commonly accepted practices of providing in vitro fertilization services'
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