Alabama hospital pauses IVF treatments following ruling saying frozen embryos are children
A hospital in Alabama paused in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments after the US state's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children. The state's largest hospital system said that it would evaluate whether patients or doctors could face criminal charges for IVF treatments. “We are saddened that this will impact our patients’ attempt to have a baby through IVF," the statement from spokeswoman Savannah Koplon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham read. IVF involves retrieving a woman's eggs and combining them in a laboratory with a man's sperm to create an embryo, which is kept fr...