Alabama's IVF ruling.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Alabama's IVF ruling. Last week, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of couples suing an Alabama storage facility under the state's wrongful death law after their frozen embryos were lost in an accident. The groundbreaking ruling, in a case dubbed LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., treated the embryos as children who should be afforded certain legal protections, a theory championed by some anti-abortion groups that has now gotten its first validation from a major U.S. court.
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| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Alabama's IVF ruling, which sent some shockwaves throughout the political world last week. We're going to |
| 1:13.9 | talk about exactly what happened and what to take away from it, how broad this ruling's implications |
| 1:19.9 | could be, all that good stuff. And as always, I'll share a little bit of my perspective. |
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