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I'm Amy Goodman bringing you part two of our conversation about the Alabama State Supreme Court's recent ruling on IVF.

Reproductive health and medical groups have asked the Alabama Supreme Court to revisit its recent ruling that frozen embryos

should be considered children.

The decision sent shock waves to the world of reproductive medicine as legal experts and infertility

specialists try to address the potential effects on access to in vitro

fertilization and other fertility treatments. The defendants in the lawsuits, the Center for Reproductive Medicine and the

mobile infirmary on Friday filed the petition and the Medical Association of the State of Alabama

and the Alabama Hospital Association filed a brief and support.

Last week, Alabama's Republican-controlled State House and Senate passed legislation

to enact civil and criminal protections for IVF providers.

But the bills don't change the classification of embryos as people.

Neither bill even mentions the word embryo.

This came after a single Republican in the U.S. Senate, Republican Senator Cindy Hyde

Smith of Mississippi, blocked quick passage Friday of a bill to create federal

protections for IVF. The measure was introduced by Democratic Illinois Senator

Tammy Duckworth who had both of her daughters using IVF.

For more, we're joined by Abby Crane.

She's been undergoing IVF treatments for nearly two years and was preparing to transfer her frozen

embryos when the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos will

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