Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.
Two Alabama fertility clinics that paused in vitro fertilization services last month expect to resume them now that state lawmakers have passed a bill to protect doctors and clinics that discard embryos as part of routine IVF services. The bill 'provides the protections that we need to start care — or resume care, really,' said Dr. Janet Bouknight, an IVF provider at Alabama Fertility, which suspended IVF services Feb.
But the planned embryo transfer procedure was canceled after the clinic paused its IVF services. Now that the clinic intends to start offering IVF again, Cole said, she wants to move forward with the transfer. The last few weeks have been “a roller coaster of emotions,” she said, “from being completely devastated to having hope and now being excited to continue the journey.” But Cole worries about what might happen in Alabama in the future.
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