{"id":1655,"date":"2024-03-08T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:03:35","slug":"how-a-sudden-halt-to-in-vitro-fertilization-shook-alabama-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"How a Sudden Halt to In Vitro Fertilization Shook Alabama Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many suffered setbacks after the State Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos were children. \u201cSomeone else\u2019s opinion changed my future,\u201d one woman said.<\/p>\n

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Leelee Ray and her husband, Austin, have been trying to have a baby for six years, through insemination procedures, two egg retrievals, four embryo transfers, an ectopic pregnancy that could have been deadly and eight miscarriages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With four frozen embryos remaining in storage at a fertility clinic, the Rays, who live in Huntsville, Ala., decided to change course. In February, they turned to an agency in Colorado, where laws about gestational carriers are more forgiving than in Alabama, to find a woman to carry their baby.<\/p>\n

It all came to a halt just days later, when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered \u201cextrauterine children\u201d under state law and several fertility clinics in the state suspended I.V.F. treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I called my clinic to ask how quickly I could get my embryos out of the state, they told me everything was paused, including shipping embryos,\u201d Ms. Ray, 35, said.<\/p>\n

Hoping to quell a national furor over the court\u2019s decision, Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation on Wednesday night shielding I.V.F. clinics<\/a> against civil actions and criminal prosecutions related to the handling of embryos.<\/p>\n

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Many suffered setbacks after the State Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos were children. \u201cSomeone else\u2019s opinion changed my future,\u201d one woman said.Leelee Ray and her husband, Austin, have been trying to have a baby for six years, through insemination procedures, two egg retrievals, four embryo transfers, an ectopic pregnancy that could have been deadly and eight miscarriages.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryOpen this article in the New York Times Audio app on iOS.With four frozen embryos remaining in storage at a fertility clinic, the Rays, who live in Huntsville, Ala., decided to change course. In February, they turned to an agency in Colorado, where laws about gestational carriers are more forgiving than in Alabama, to find a woman to carry their baby.It all came to a halt just days later, when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered \u201cextrauterine children\u201d under state law and several fertility clinics in the state suspended I.V.F. treatments.\u201cWhen I called my clinic to ask how quickly I could get my embryos out of the state, they told me everything was paused, including shipping embryos,\u201d Ms. Ray, 35, said.Hoping to quell a national furor over the court\u2019s decision, Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation on Wednesday night shielding I.V.F. clinics against civil actions and criminal prosecutions related to the handling of embryos.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}