Women describe heartbreak after IVF treatments stop in Alabama after the state Supreme Court issued a decision that frozen embryos are "children."

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are “children.”

Since last year, Jasmine York, 34, and her husband have been trying to have a baby. The couple, both nurses, began freezing embryos before they got married in March 2023.

York had her first embryo transfer in August 2023, but the transfer failed, she told ABC News.

Determined to grow their family, the couple tried again, and they are currently undergoing their second round of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF.

But, after the Alabama Supreme Court issued a new decision last week ruling that frozen embryos are considered children, they say their embryo transfer appointment scheduled for March 20 was canceled by her hospital.

  • tygerprints
    3•9 months ago

    What doesn’t follow for me in this court ruling, is how declaring embryos to be frozen “children” is meant to DETER women from getting IVF treatments. If anything, shouldn’t it be even more of an incentive and an encouragement FOR IVF treatments? Shouldn’t we want these poor frozen tots to have a nice warm womb of their own?

    Of course the whole basis of the ruling is not about caring about children. It’s about how many more rights conservitard morons can strip away from women, while the rest of us have no choice but to sit back and watch it happen, without any power to stop it.