Some fertility clinics and transport services are worried about shipping embryos following the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos are children.
Some fertility clinics and shipping services plan to hold off on sending frozen embryos from Alabama to other states as they weigh the legal implications of an Alabama court ruling that says embryos created through in vitro fertilization are children.
Many doctors and patients are confused about which elements of fertility treatment are restricted, following the Alabama Supreme Court decision last week, and at least three Alabama providers have paused IVF services. Some IVF patients have considered moving their embryos out of the state to continue the process elsewhere, only to learn that the option isn’t available to them right now.
So… if you are in possession of a embryo and you’re not the DNA donor for it and you ship it to another clinic across state lines, wouldn’t that be child trafficking?
As we continue to go down this dark path, eventually the people who run healthcare facilities are going to have to set up their own underground railroad to escape the state before they’re arrested doing basic healthcare activities.
Not a lawyer but wouldn’t it then be a federal issue?
It then depends on what the federal courts think about the embryo=child issue.
Maybe the state could still prosecute you for possible state crimes, but dunno
For God’s sake don’t take pictures of them.
If you transport it across state lines with intent to implant it, is it transport a minor to another state for sex?
If you transport it and then don’t use/destroy it, is it conspiracy to commit murder? Even if the “murder” is in another state, they can show the intent started in Alabama so you get the conspiracy fun.
I can see the owners of the clinics being personally liable financially
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