Donald Trump issued a social media post Friday strongly supporting in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling concerning the legal rights of embryos conceived using IVF.
Earlier this week, Alabama’s high court ruled that frozen embryos must have the same legal rights as children and that their disposal should be considered a form of wrongful death.
The decision, celebrated by pro-life groups, was the result of a lawsuit brought by a group of IVF patients whose frozen embryos were destroyed in December 2020 after being accidentally dropped on the floor.
In his opinion, Associate Justice Jay Michell wrote that he was unable “to recognize an unwritten exception for extrauterine children in the wrongful-death context” and that wrongful-death law “applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation.”
However, the issue has raised…
