Alabama GOP Lawmakers Move To Protect IVF Clinics

The Birmingham News reports:

The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill intended to provide legal protections to in vitro fertilization clinics, a move that supporters acknowledged was not a permanent solution to questions about the legal status of embryos created through IVF.

The bill passed by a vote of 94-6. It moved to the Senate, which passed a similar bill a few hours later. HB237, by GOP Reps. Terri Collins and David Faulkner, comes in response to a Feb. 16 ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that found that frozen embryos are considered unborn children.

Read the full article. The bills ban lawsuits and criminal charges for clinics that perform IVF. Collins is also the author of Alabama’s ban on abortion.

Breaking news: The Alabama legislature voted Thursday to protect doctors doing in vitro fertilization from criminal or civil liability if embryos they help to create are subsequently damaged or destroyed. https://t.co/cuWogUbK8H

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