Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frozen embryos can be safely stored for 10 years or more. (Getty Images) The ruling has stunned doctors and left fertility ...

The Alabama state supreme court’s ruling that frozen embryos are considered children under state law has sent shock waves through the world of reproductive medicine. Infertility specialists and legal ...

June 11 (Reuters) - The Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization and commend congregants who use alternative fertility therapies or adopt frozen embryos ...

Fallout continues in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling last week that frozen embryos are children – an unprecedented decision that critics say could have a chilling effect on access to ...

Some fertility clinics and shipping services plan to hold off on sending frozen embryos from Alabama to other states as they weigh the legal implications of an Alabama court ruling that says embryos ...

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos are “children,” entitled to full personhood rights, and anyone who destroys them could be liable in a wrongful death case. The ...

The U.A.B. system said it was worried about potential criminal prosecutions after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children. By Anna Betts The University of ...

After three miscarriages in less than a year, Gabby Goidel said she was diagnosed with unexplained genetic infertility. For reasons that aren't clear to doctors, any fetus she carries has a ...

On Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a bombshell ruling, holding that a frozen embryo in storage is the legal equivalent of a child under the law. See LePage v. Center for Reproductive ...

Frantic calls to fertility clinics. Plans to move frozen embryos to states with more liberal reproductive laws. Heartbreaking decisions about when and where to get pregnant. A religious-tinged Alabama ...