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The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created and stored for in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children under a state law allowing parents to sue for wrongful death of their minor ...
The parents sued for wrongful death but a trial court dismissed their claims, finding the “cryopreserved, in vitro embryos involved in this case do not fit within the definition of a ‘person ...
James LePage, et al. v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Mobile Infirmary Association [a] is a 2024 Alabama Supreme Court case in which the court reaffirmed that frozen embryos are considered a minor child for statutory purposes, allowing for in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to be held liable for the accidental loss of embryos under Alabama's Wrongful Death of a Minor statute ...
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by an Alabama fertility clinic to avoid a wrongful death claim in a civil lawsuit over the destruction of a couple's frozen embryo in a case that ...
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 16 that frozen embryos can be considered “children” under state law, which was swiftly followed by multiple fertility centers, including the University ...
Roche v Roche [2010] 2 IR 321: [2009] IESC 82 is an Irish Supreme Court case which affirmed the High Court decision that frozen embryos did not constitute the “unborn” within the meaning of Article 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution. The spirit of the Supreme Court's judgement was that frozen embryos were not extended the same right to life ...
Now, however, according to the Alabama ruling, the destruction of any frozen embryo, intentional or not, would violate the state’s “wrongful death of a minor” law, leaving parents and clinic ...
The ruling itself [saying that an embryo is a person] makes zero sense. The judgment does not recognize the complete impracticality of treating embryos like persons.