00:00 The Alabama Justice quotes from the Bible, in his opinion accompanying the state's Supreme
00:06 Court decision, writing that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God and
00:12 their lives cannot be destroyed without defacing his glory.
00:16 On Friday, the Alabama court applied that to all unborn children without limitation,
00:22 including frozen embryos stored in a cryogenic facility.
00:27 The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed against an IVF clinic after three frozen embryos were
00:33 dropped on the floor and destroyed in an accident.
00:36 Medical associations now warn that the increased risk of legal exposure could result in Alabama's
00:42 fertility clinics shutting down, or at best, push up the already prohibitive costs of IVF,
00:48 a process where human eggs are fertilized outside of the womb and later implanted in
00:53 a human uterus.
00:56 Alabama's Supreme Court ruling is a terrifying development for the one in six people impacted
01:01 by infertility who need in vitro fertilization to build their families.
01:06 This new legal framework may make it impossible to offer services like IVF.
01:12 IVF advocates had warned that such decisions were a potential repercussion of the US Supreme
01:17 Court's 2022 decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
01:23 An opinion echoed by the White House, which called the ruling "exactly the type of chaos
01:28 expected when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade" and paved the way for politicians
01:33 to dictate some of the most personal decisions families can make.
01:37 Alabama is one of some two dozen US states that has banned or restricted access to abortion.
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