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Alabama Clinic Halts IVF Procedures After New Embryo Ruling

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all children “regardless of their location” in or outside a mother’s uterus.

Embryologist Ric Ross holds a dish with human embryos at the La Jolla IVF Clinic February 28, 2007 in La Jolla, California.
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