How Alabama\u2019s ruling that frozen embryos are \u2018children\u2019 could impact IVF<\/p>\n
Ziegler: <\/strong>I think there’s been a broader strategy \u2014 the sort of next Roe v. Wade<\/em>, if you will \u2014 for the anti-abortion movement. It is a recognition that a fetus or embryo is a person for all purposes, particularly for the purposes of the federal constitution. And while this isn’t a case about the federal constitution, I think you’ll see the anti-abortion movement making a gradual case that the more state courts \u2014 the more state laws \u2014 recognize a fetus or embryo as a person for different circumstances and reasons, the more compelling they can say is the case for fetal personhood under the constitution. The more compelling is their argument that a fetus is a rights holder and that liberal abortion laws or state abortion rights are impermissible.<\/p>\n Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are \u2018children\u2019 under state law<\/p>\n Dr. Paula Amato, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said a decision to treat frozen fertilized egg as the legal equivalent of a child or gestating fetus could limit the availability of modern health care.<\/p>\n \u201cBy insisting that these very different biological entities are legally equivalent, the best state-of-the-art fertility care will be made unavailable to the people of Alabama. No health care provider will be willing to provide treatments if those treatments may lead to civil or criminal charges,\u201d Amato said.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Ala. hospital halts IVF after state\u2019s high court ruled embryos are \u201cchildren\u201d<\/p>\n The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) health system is halting in vitro fertilization treatment in the wake of a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday that deemed frozen embryos to be “children,”<\/a> The ruling opens up anyone who destroys embryos to liability in a wrongful death lawsuit, according to multiple media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n The Alabama Supreme Court opinion holding that embryos are children, explained<\/p>\n But the tortured legal reasoning animating Mack<\/em> and Burdick-Aysenne<\/em> should cause any medical facility pause before they rely on the explicit language of Alabama\u2019s criminal statutes to determine if they can be prosecuted. If the court can hold that a criminal statute amends a different, unrelated civil statute, then there\u2019s no guarantee it won\u2019t read that criminal statute to exclude the words \u201cin utero.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Vox<\/a><\/p>\n Alabama\u2019s supreme court ruled embryos are \u2018extrauterine children\u2019. IVF patients are worried<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re a physician or an embryologist working in that clinic, you now stand ready to be charged with manslaughter or threatened with a wrongful death suit because one of the embryos didn\u2019t happen to survive the freeze-thaw process,\u201d Tipton said.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Doctors and patients fearfully proceed with IVF after Alabama court rules embryos are children<\/p>\n “The next step will be to say, ‘Well, if an embryo is a person [outside the uterus], clearly it’s a person in utero,” said Priscilla Smith, director of the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to be dramatic and say it\u2019s totally Handmaid\u2019s Tale, but more and more, you\u2019re in the situation rather where the state controls your behavior,” Smith said.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How Alabama\u2019s ruling that frozen embryos are \u2018children\u2019 could impact IVF Ziegler: I think there’s been a broader strategy \u2014 the sort of next Roe v. 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