Alabama's largest hospital is pausing all IVF treatments after the state's supreme court ruled last week that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, are considered children under state law — leaving patients struggling to have a child in limbo. Jasmine York, 34, turned to IVF to get pregnant, but now her dream of having another child has come to a sudden halt after the hospital called to inform her the treatments are being put on hold.
'We have made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists,' the practice wrote. 'We are contacting patients that will be affected today to find solutions for them and we are working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of Alabama.'Dr.
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