UAB officials said in a press statement Wednesday that the system’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility “must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for IVF treatments.”was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases initiated by three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed in a fertility clinic accident.
“We are saddened that this will impact our patients’ attempt to have a baby through IVF,” UAB said in its press statement. “We want to reiterate that it is IVF treatment that is paused,” according to the school’s press statement. “Everything through egg retrieval remains in place. Egg fertilization and embryo development is paused.”
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