Two couples behind a lawsuit that led the Alabama supreme court to rule that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children”, endangering access to in vitro fertilization in the state, dismissed their lawsuit on Wednesday.
The two couples, James and Emily LePage and William and Caroline Fonde, sued the Mobile Infirmary medical center and the Center for Reproductive Medicine after a patient accidentally destroyed frozen embryos they had created through IVF. The patient had wandered into the center, removed the embryos from storage and dropped them on to the floor.
