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Episode: Alabama Court Rules Embryos Are Children
Description: The Alabama Supreme court ruled on Friday that embryos, often frozen during in-vitro fertilization processes, are legally considered children. The ruling may limit the availability of IVF treatment in the future, since the legal risk of the procedure is now far greater. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, for example, announced theyâd stop IVF fertilization procedures. Judges relied on an 1872 law to the Alabama Constitutionâwhich protects the rights of unborn childrenâto argue that âextrauterineâ embryos counted as unborn children. Practitioners across the state now must decide if freezing embryos is breaking the new law, and hopeful parents mu...