Posts Tagged ‘frozen embryos’

Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are children

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen human embryos constitute children under state statute. This decision could have wide-reaching effects on in vitro fertilisation and other medical concerns there. The nine-judge court said in the 8-1 ruling that the state’s “Wrongful Death of a Minor Act” is “sweeping and unqualified” and that its provisions Read more

1000s of fertility samples may be destroyed

Friday, November 14th, 2014

Eggs, sperm and embryo samples of almost 2000 people are set to be lawfully destroyed as a ten year storage time deadline approaches. In 2004, the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act was passed governing the practice of fertility treatment. In 2010 the legislation was amended allowing the retrospective 10-year storage period for eggs, sperm and Read more

Maltese bishops criticise IVF for frozen orphanages

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

By freezing superfluous embryos, the procedure of in vitro fertilisation is “creating new orphanages”, the Catholic bishops of Malta have said in a pastoral letter. The letter says parents shirk their responsibility if they agree to the freezing of their children, and the future of embryos in the frozen orphanages is “very bleak”. The freezing Read more