MOBILE: "The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled to legally recognize frozen embryos as children. However, doctors and legal experts warn the ruling could have dangerous implications for fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization. The unprecedented decision reverses a lower court's ruling in a wrongful death lawsuit three couples brought against a fertility clinic after someone there dropped their frozen embryos, destroying them. The Alabama Supreme Court determined frozen embryos qualify as people under its state law, saying, "unborn children are children… without exception based on developmental stage." Advocates argue the ruling could impact the availability of fertility treatments, like IVF, because of fear from providers of being held liable for disposed non-viable embryos."

https://abc13.com/alabama-supreme-court-embryos-embryo-ruling-fertility/14448623/