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Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law. Critics on the Democratic side say the bills failed to address the main controversy.

The Alabama Republican party is still doing damage control following a controversial ruling by the State’s Supreme Court. The justices declared that fertilized embryos are children. That generated a media frenzy that left GOP lawmakers struggling with what to say next. The Republicans are already dealing with the fallout from the end of the Roe Versus Wade decision that legalized abortion. The ruling has politicians picking their words carefully…

The fallout continues over the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children.” Demonstrators took to the picket line to protest the ruling and its impact on parents seeking to have children through invitro fertilization.

Tomorrow, APR news director Pat Duggins looks at the political messaging tangle created by the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children.” Then, there’s where the ruling “hits home.”

Alabama State lawmakers think they’ve found a way to resolve the controversial State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos “are children.”

The Biden administration will visit Alabama Tuesday in the wake of the State Supreme Court’s controversial ruling that frozen embryos are “children.”

The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S.

Alabama lawmakers have begun scrambling for ways to protect in vitro fertilization services after a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under state law. Three providers paused services in the wake of the ruling. Separate proposals were being prepared in the House and Senate that would seek to prevent a fertilized egg from being recognized as a human life or an unborn child until it is implanted in a woman’s uterus. Governor Kay Ivey said the state wants to foster a culture of life and said that includes “couples hoping and praying to be parents who utilize IVF.” In the meantime, Alabama’s GOP Chairman John Wahl says Democrats are using the ruling for political advantage. APR News Director Pat Duggins spoke with Wahl, and here’s that conversation…

Some Republicans joined Democrats in expressing alarm over a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that jeopardized future access to in vitro fertilization, giving allies of President Joe Biden new fuel for their efforts to center abortion access in the presidential election.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that couples who were trying in vitro fertilization and lost frozen embryos in an accident at a south Alabama storage facility can sue under the state's wrongful death law. Since then, three providers have paused the often-used fertility treatments while they sort out the legal implications.