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A military family faces uncertainty over having another child with the help of IVF after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling
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Julie Eshelman and her husband conceived their 2-year-old daughter through in vitro fertilization and kept their frozen embryos in storage, hoping to keep available a vital option for growing their family.
But with the military family potentially being redeployed to Alabama, that option is now shrouded with uncertainty following a recent state Supreme Court ruling, Eshelman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday.
In its unprecedented decision, the Alabama Supreme Court said embryos are children – even if they’re outside of a uterus – and that those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death. Experts say the decision will likely make the already high costs of infertility treatments substantially higher and discourage Alabama providers from offering them at all.
Julie Eshelman and her husband conceived their 2-year-old daughter through in vitro fertilization and kept their frozen embryos in storage, hoping to keep available a vital option for growing their family.
But with the military family potentially being redeployed to Alabama, that option is now shrouded with uncertainty following a recent state Supreme Court ruling, Eshelman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday.
In its unprecedented decision, the Alabama Supreme Court said embryos are children – even if they’re outside of a uterus – and that those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death. Experts say the decision will likely make the already high costs of infertility treatments substantially higher and discourage Alabama providers from offering them at all.
