Last month, hospitals and clinics were forced to stop all in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally protected children. On 28 ...

In 2024, Democrats held a majority on the five-member EEOC, and Lucas was outvoted. But after his inauguration, Trump fired two Democratic commissioners and named Lucas acting chair. The October ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Frozen embryos created during fertility treatments can be considered children under Alabama state law, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday. The decision, issued in a pair of ...

Heidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor of nursing at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 ended the federal right to abortion, legislative ...