University of Alabama at Birmingham pauses in vitro fertilization following state Supreme Court embryo ruling
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham stopped in vitro fertilization procedures after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos have the same legal status as children.
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UAB spokeswoman Hannah Echols explained the university health system remained "saddened" for women wanting to become pregnant through IVF, which involves fertilizing eggs with sperm outside the body in a laboratory and then reimplanting embryos into a woman's uterus for gestation. "We must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for IVF treatments," Echols wrote in an email, according to AL.com. The state Supreme Court decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed at a fertility clinic when a patient from the hospital walked into the storage area, removed the embryos from a cryogenic freezer and dropped them on the ground.
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