Declaration that IVF embryos are ‘extrauterine children’ means ‘literally criminalizing standard medical care’, physicians say
Doctors are reacting with shock and fury to an Alabama supreme court decision that has shut down in vitro fertilization at the state’s largest infertility clinics.
Physicians said the decision, which ruled embryos are “extrauterine children”, grossly misunderstood reproductive medicine and was “devastating” for infertile patients.