Alabama's supreme court ruled embryos are 'extrauterine children'. IVF
patients are worried
The state's sweeping ruling leaves doctors and patients scrambling to
untangle its implications for frozen embryos
In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Alabama state supreme court ruled
on Friday that embryos are "extrauterine children" - a term that could
have widespread implications for anybody who is seeking or provides in
vitro fertilization (IVF). The ruling has plunged IVF doctors and
patients in Alabama into chaos and uncertainty, as they scramble to
untangle the practical implications of the sweeping ruling.
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Since each created embryo is now a person in the eyes of the law, the
Alabama ruling casts multiple parts of the IVF process into legal
jeopardy. Providers may no longer be able to freeze, thaw, transfer or
test embryos using best medical practices. People also frequently make
more embryos than they use, and it is unclear if Alabamians would be
able to ever dispose of those embryos under the supreme court ruling.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/alabama-ivf-embryo-extrauterine-children-ruling
Jerks....
John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics
and gynecology at the University of Utah, testified before the
President's Council on Bioethics that between 60 and 80 percent of all naturally conceived embryos are simply flushed out in women's normal
menstrual flows unnoticed. This is not miscarriage we're talking
about. The women and their husbands or partners never even know that
conception has taken place; the embryos disappear from their wombs in
their menstrual flows.
http://reason.com/archives/2004/12/22/is-heaven-populated-chiefly-by
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