Facing backlash over IVF ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix

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Legislators prepared separate proposals that would seek to prevent a fertilized egg from being recognized as a human life

The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that determined frozen embryos can be considered children under state law has sweeping implications for fertility treatments.Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused services in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law.

“At the end of the day, the Republican Party has to be responsible for what they have done,” Singleton said. House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, a Democrat, introduced legislation to clarify that a “human egg or human embryo that exists in any form outside of the uterus shall not, under any circumstances, be considered an unborn child” under state law.

Alabama Attorney General Marshall does not intend to prosecute IVF providers or families based on the state Supreme Court ruling, Chief Counsel Katherine Robertson said in a statement.

 

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