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Chasing Life

Paging Dr. Gupta: What You Need to Know about the Alabama IVF Ruling

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alabama’s Supreme Court has ruled that embryos are children and anyone discarding frozen embryos could face wrongful death charges. So where does this leave fertility doctors and their patients in the state? And could this ruling have national implications? For this special episode, Dr. Sanjay Gupta turns to IVF expert, Dr. Eve Feinberg from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She explains how embryos are handled during the IVF process and why the ruling is contentious for fertility care providers. Also, CNN Correspondent Isabel Rosales shares how some families and fertility clinics in Alabama have responded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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for runtime. It's very scary to think how much I've invested into this, how close I am to the end of this procedure.

0:38.0

I've been waiting over two years to be pregnant.

0:41.0

So I, there is no world where I could see me stopping this process

0:46.0

right now. That's 26 year old Gabriel Goydell describing the moment she heard

0:51.7

about the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling

0:54.4

that frozen embryos would now be considered children.

0:58.2

The ramifications of this are enormous.

1:01.0

What it means is if the frozen embryos in a fertility center are ever

1:05.2

discarded or destroyed, people could be held criminally liable.

1:09.9

And for Gabby, as well as others in Alabama, hoping to become parents through IVF, the ruling was devastating.

1:16.4

On Friday, the Justice has ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization or IVF would be protected under Alabama's wrongful

1:25.8

death of a minor act. Advocates for infertile couples call the ruling terrifying.

1:30.5

Now to be clear, freezing embryos is incredibly common during IVF procedures.

1:36.0

The hope is that one of them could lead to pregnancy, but embryos are sometimes damaged or disposed of while in the lab.

1:44.0

It's often part of the process.

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