Tag: Embryos (Human)

You Finished I.V.F. Can You Donate Embryos and Get a Tax Deduction?

The Alabama Supreme Court’s in vitro fertilization ruling this year, which held that frozen embryos should be considered children, raised a long list of questions for people worried about their future fertility treatments. My colleague Tara Siegel Bernard and I attempted to answer many of them in February. But a few unusual ones linger for […]

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Trump and Alabama Have Laid Bare the Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement

To understand the remarkable moral, political and intellectual collapse of the pro-life movement, look to the Alabama Supreme Court, not just to Donald Trump’s recent pledge not to sign a national abortion ban or Kari Lake’s flip-flop on Arizona’s reinstated 1864 anti-abortion law. When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that I.V.F. embryos were subject to […]

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Hospital at Center of Alabama Embryo Ruling Is Ending I.V.F. Services

A Mobile, Ala., hospital at the center of a State Supreme Court ruling that found that frozen embryos could be considered children said on Wednesday that it would no longer provide in vitro fertilization lab services after this year. In an email explaining the decision, Hannah Peterson, a spokeswoman for the Infirmary Health hospital system, […]

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