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Alabama lawmakers pass IVF immunity legislation
Several clinics in the US state of Alabama have halted in-vivo fertilization after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are “children” with a Constitutional right to life. Alabama’s immunity law will allow people to resume treatment without fear of another change to state law, which could lead to prosecution, its sponsors said. The…
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The Florida legislature stopped the bill to protect unborn child
Democrats in Alabama’s Senate tried to amend the bill to states that a human embryo outside a uterus can’t be considered an unborn child or human being under state law. The Republicans blocked the amendment from coming up for a vote. This comes after the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos should be considered…
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The Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are children under state law
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that embryos cannot be stored in the state. This comes after three couples from Alabama had filed a lawsuit to block others from storing their frozen embryos in the state. They had used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to create embryos that were then frozen for use at a later…