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Commentary: My wife and I navigated IVF just fine without the Alabama Supreme Court

I never thought of myself as a mass killer, but the Alabama Supreme Court has a different idea. Last month, the court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, allowing several in-vitro fertilization patients to sue a fertility clinic for wrongful death over the inadvertent destruction of their refrigerated, um, kids. To be clear, you cannot freeze a child and thaw it later unharmed. An ...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on protections for access to in vitro fertilization on Feb. 27, 2024, in Washington, DC. During the news conference U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she would reintroduce her legislation "Access to Family Building Act" in response to Alabama's State Supreme Court ruling that...

I never thought of myself as a mass killer, but the Alabama Supreme Court has a different idea.

Last month, the court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, allowing several in-vitro fertilization patients to sue a fertility clinic for wrongful death over the inadvertent destruction of their refrigerated, um, kids.

To be clear, you cannot freeze a child and thaw it later unharmed. An embryo, which can be frozen, is not a microscopic child; rather, it is a

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