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So IVF is a method of fertility treatment that often results in multiple viable embryos produced. The embryos that don’t get implanted are frozen so that they remain in stasis and stored away to potentially be implanted later if the couple wants to.
There was an incident where a person gained access to the freezer where the embryos were stored, handled them, burned himself, and dropped them on the floor. One of the couples whose embryos were destroyed sued the fertility clinic under Alabama’s wrongful death of a minor act. The defense argued that frozen embryos are not minor children, and the court agreed. The case got appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court who overturned the previous ruling thus making frozen embryos children as a matter of law.
Many fertility clinics in Alabama have paused IVF because they don’t want to be responsible for frozen embryos if they’re legally children.
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