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Edward Helmore

Alabama legislature passes bill aiming to protect IVF after embryo ruling

Fertility doctors from Alabama talk to state senator Donnie Chesteen about support for IVF legislation.
Fertility doctors from Alabama talk to state senator Donnie Chesteen about support for IVF legislation. Photograph: Julie Bennett/Reuters

Alabama lawmakers moved to protect in vitro fertilization treatments in the state, days after a state judicial ruling on embryos led to clinics that offered the reproductive technique to suspend services.

Alabama’s house and senate both passed a measure on Thursday intended to provide legal protections to IVF clinics, a temporary fix to problems created by a state supreme court ruling that deemed frozen embryos “extrauterine children”.

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