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Alabama IVF ruling: Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after ruling deems embryos ‘children’, three fertility clinics pause services in state::Nationwide services say they will cease transporting embryos in and out of state following court decision deeming them ‘children’

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wonder what laws AL has about surrending children to the state. Some allow you to surrender babies under, say, 3 months old at a hospital or fire station and the state will take custody.

AL suddenly on the hook for the storage of hundreds if not thousands of people's surrendered embryos? I would think if a person has to start IVF treatment over in a new state, they aren't going to be motivated to keep paying for the embryos in AL.

Edit: still not sure about the specifics of AL, but all 50 states do have some form of safe-haven law.