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News Alabama I.V.F. Ruling Opens New Front in Election-Year Abortion Battles
An Alabama Supreme Court ruling, that frozen embryos should be considered children, has created a new political nightmare for Republicans nationally, who distanced themselves from a fringe view about reproductive health that threatened to drive away voters in November. Several Republican governors and lawmakers swiftly disavowed the decision, made by a Republican-majority court, expressing support…
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News Alabama providers suspend IVF treatments after state court’s ruling as fertility experts weigh in
A decision from the Alabama Supreme Court has led to a halt in IVF services at some locations and a flurry of protests from providers in the fertility space. The court ruled on Feb. 16 that under state law, frozen embryos are considered children, stating in the decision that “the Wrongful Death of a Minor…
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News President Biden blasts Alabama Supreme Court ruling on frozen embryos: ‘Outrageous and unacceptable’
President Biden on Thursday blasted an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered human. “Today, in 2024 in America, women are being turned away from emergency rooms and forced to travel hundreds of miles for health care, while doctors fear prosecution for providing an abortion,” Biden’s office released in a statement. The statement…
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News For Women Undergoing I.V.F. In Alabama, What Now?
Natalie Brumfield, 41, cried as she read about the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos in test tubes should be considered children. A mother of seven, including two babies conceived through in vitro fertilization, Ms. Brumfield felt that one of her cherished beliefs as a Christian had been affirmed: Life, she said, begins when embryos…
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News The Alabama Chief Justice Who Invoked God in Deciding Embryo Case
In an Alabama Supreme Court decision that has rattled the world of reproductive medicine, a majority of the justices said the law was clear that frozen embryos should be considered children: “Unborn children are ‘children.’” But the court’s chief justice, Tom Parker, drew on more than the Constitution and legal precedent to explain his determination….
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News Alabama basketball player appears to throw elbow at Florida opponent while fighting for loose ball
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News Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?
The Alabama Supreme Court has opened a new front in the legal debate over when human life begins. Embryos created and stored in a medical facility must be considered children under the state’s law governing harmful death, the court ruled. Friday’s ruling was cheered by anti-abortion activists nationwide, who have long argued that life begins…
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News Alabama pushes to use controversial nitrogen gas method in second execution
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The…
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News A State Court Ruling on I.V.F. Echoes Far Beyond Alabama
An Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children has sent shock waves through the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt over fertility care for would-be parents in the state and raising complex legal questions with implications extending far beyond Alabama. On Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press…
0 7 0February 21, 2024