Its passage comes less than a month after state fertility services paused when a court ruled that frozen embryos are children.
Proponents of the law say it will allow families to re-start IVF treatments that were paused after the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling.
The state's supreme court last month ruled that frozen embryos had the same rights as children, and people could be held liable for destroying them. While the measure offers limited legal immunity to medical providers, it still allows - in some cases - for lawsuits to be filed against manufacturers of IVF equipment if they damage or destroy an embryo during the treatment process.earlier on Wednesday that the measure did not sufficiently answer the question of whether embryos outside the womb are children.
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