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University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Center is shown. The hospital system announced Thursday that in light of the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that frozen embryos are “minor children” under the Wrongful Death Act, that it is pausing in vitro fertilization procedures. (screengrab via YouTube).

As a lone dissenting justice on the Alabama Supreme Court predicted just days ago, hospitals in the state have stopped performing in vitro fertilization procedures out of fear of legal ramifications.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system made the announcement Wednesday in a statement announcing that egg fertilization, embryo development, and embryo implantation would be “paused.”

“We are saddened that this will impact our patients’ attempt to have a baby through I.V.F.,” the statement said, “but we 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 I.V.F. treatments.”

The statement further clarified that the health system’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility will continue performing egg retrievals from women seeking fertility treatment, but would not continue to the next step in the process which includes combining eggs with sperm for lab fertilization.

In vitro fertilization or “IVF” is a common procedure used to achieve pregnancy. It involves egg retrieval, then combining egg and sperm in a lab setting to create a fertilized embryo, then the transfer of that embryo into a person’s uterus. A recent study reports that the procedure accounts for about 1-2 percent — or about 4 million — births per year in the U.S.

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