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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Politics
Carter Sherman

‘My embryos aren’t safe here’: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling

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Kristin Dillensnyder holds her daughter she conceived through IVF. Photograph: Stephen Poff/Courtesy Kristin Dillensnyder

Tucker Legerski and his wife, Megan, have spent more than two years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby.

Married since 2021, the Alabama couple last year embarked on in-vitro fertilization (IVF). After they retrieved eggs, a specialist combined those eggs with sperm to create four quality embryos. Last fall, they successfully transferred one embryo, resulting in a pregnancy – but eight weeks in, it ended in a miscarriage. The couple had planned to attempt another embryo transfer in the fall.

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