Aria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.
Less than a week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are considered children, the University of Alabama suspended its IVF treatments so it could consider the legal repercussions of the decision.
The court determined that failing to secure that storage area violated the state's Wrongful Death Act — which says an unjustified or negligent act that leads to someone's death is a civil offense — because the frozen embryos were considered human beings. The ruling “does not appear to create criminal liability for IVF providers in the practice of IVF the creation of embryos for IVF,' said Gail Deady, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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