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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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos used for in vitro fertilisation should be considered children. [17] The UAB Hospital and other providers ended their IVF treatments in response. [18] This is because couples are now allowed to create a lawsuit for the wrongful death of their embryos.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a decision critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatment in the state.