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Carter Sherman

Second Alabama provider stops IVF care after court deems embryos ‘children’

one-storey building with sign saying 'alabama fertility'
Alabama Fertility said it was ‘working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far-reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of Alabama’. Photograph: Google Maps

A second Alabama provider announced that it will pause its in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state supreme court ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that embryos are “extrauterine children”.

“We have made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists,” Alabama Fertility said in a post to its Instagram account. “We are contacting patients that will be affected today to find solutions for them and we are working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far-reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of Alabama.”

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