Sweet Home Alabama just got even sweeter for babies.
In a 8-1 vote the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children and deserve the same legal rights as other unborn children do.
In 2021 a wandering patient at a Mobile fertility clinic accidentally dropped and destroyed the embryos of three different couples. The couples sued The Center for Reproductive Medicine, who runs the mobile clinic but a circuit judge threw out the suit because, up until Friday, the embryos were not protected under the “Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.”
The ruling indicated that the patient removed the embryos from the freezer and likely got burnt from the subzero temperatures. The cryopreserved embryonic babies fell on the floor “where they began to slowly die,” AL.com reported.
“‘The cryopreserved, in vitro embryos involved in this case do not fit…
