Alabama AG Has No Plans to Enforce Controversial IVF Ruling

In a landmark decision on Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court declared human embryos, including those outside the uterus, as children under state law, thus bringing them under the protection of the state’s wrongful death laws. This ruling, stemming from a lawsuit against a cryogenic facility for the destruction of stored embryos, has raised significant concerns about the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments in Alabama. In its decision, the Alabama Supreme Court pointed out that the central question in the case was whether unborn children located outside of a biological uterus at the time they are killed are exempted from the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act....