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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 ...
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 ...
Two couples who sued a hospital and in-vitro fertilization clinic over the accidental destruction of their frozen embryos have dropped their lawsuit, months after Alabama's supreme court ruled ...
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 ...
Q&A: What Alabama’s Frozen Embryo Ruling Means Jarren Vink The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that embryos have personhood and are considered "children," and that if destroyed, there can be ...
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 Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to reconsider a controversial ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under a state law. Justices in a 7-2 decision without comment ...
The legislation would shield providers from prosecution and civil lawsuits related to the “damage to or death of an embryo” during IVF services. The bills advanced with broad bipartisan support.