Alabama’s Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos must have the same legal rights as children and their disposal may be considered a form of wrongful death.
The decision, which has been celebrated by pro-life organizations came as the result of a lawsuit brought by a group of in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients whose frozen embryos were destroyed in December 2020 when a patient removed them from their cryogenic storage unit and accidentally dropped them on the floor.
The Alabama Reflector reported under their lawsuit, which was filed against the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, the plaintiffs accused the facility of violating the Wrongful Death of A Child Act by discarding the embryos without their permission.
In his opinion, Associate Justice Jay Michell argued that he was unable “to recognize an unwritten exception for extrauterine children in the…
