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 ...
by Paul Thornton, Los Angeles Times
Mar 08, 2024
3 minutes
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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