Invitro Fertilization

The nation’s highest court will not hear an appeal involving an Alabama fertility clinic and a frozen embryo it allegedly destroyed. The legal case was part of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country. Most of the cases identified were in just two states: Alabama and Oklahoma.

Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue. The action was prompted, in part, by an Alabama Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that frozen embryos are “children.”

The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization — Democrats' latest election-year attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women's health issues. The action follows an Alabama Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that “frozen embryos are children.”

Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for women, but did not detail how he would fund his plan or precisely how it would work. That prompted a rebuke from Gwen Walz, wife of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, on the campaign trail. The controversy over IVF can be traced back,in part, to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling back in February that frozen embryos “are children.”

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled an informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an "unborn human being." The document reportedly builds on a controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court earlier this year that frozen embryos are “children.”

As the 2024 Presidential Election draws near, Alabama still has one of the lowest voter turnout percentages in the nation. The ACLU of Alabama is working to increase voter participation in Alabama with Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo).

Two couples who sued an Alabama hospital and in-vitro fertilization clinic where their embryos were accidentally destroyed have dropped their wrongful death lawsuit. They didn't explain why they chose to drop their joint lawsuit.

Families at the center of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children are asking a judge to toss out a new state law that provides legal immunity to invitro fertilization providers.

Senate Republicans in Washington have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. The action follows February’s ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered “children.”