Montgomery, Alabama
Alabama lawmakers have begun looking for ways to protect in vitro fertilization services after a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under existing state law.
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. Justices ruled that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in a mishap at a storage facility in Mobile could pursue wrongful death claims for their “extrauterine children.” Justices cited sweeping language that the GOP-controlled Legislature and voters added to the Alabama Constitution in 2018 saying that the state recognizes the “rights of the unborn child.”
Republican state Sen. Tim Melson, who is a doctor, said his proposal seeks to clarify that a fertilized egg is a “potential life” and not a human life until it is implanted in the uterus.
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