Supreme Court Allows Alabama Ruling Classifying Frozen Embryos as Unborn Children to Stand

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case brought by two Alabama in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics challenging a court ruling that found frozen embryos are considered “children.” Three Alabama couples filed a lawsuit in 2021 against Center for Reproductive Medicine, Mobile Infirmary Medical Center and a state fertility center after a hospital patient allegedly destroyed their embryos on accident after dropping them on the floor. Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that the sta