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’
Transport the embryos to a non-AL clinic to continue treatment and whoops, now charged with abducting children across state lines.
The Daily had someone call in who was 3 days away from an implantation, the surrogate had been taking shots for weeks to get ready, and the company called it off because of the ruling. And transport companies won’t move the embryos because of the ruling. So literally the only legal option is to spend a year and $30,000 starting over in a other state and hoping the far right don’t come to power / have a similar judgement in that state in that time.
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.