#Alabama Gov #KayIvey (R) on Wed signed a bill to protect providers & patients doing #IVF from #legal#liability if #embryos they create are damaged or destroyed, a move that comes weeks after a state Supreme Court ruling threatened the treatment’s use.
As an Alabama escapee, I feel somehow absolved of any soulstain arising from the fleeting glee what twinges me at the idea of forces working against there being more Alabamans. Too many folks there are proud to swallow their tobacco juice.
…The University of #Alabama at #Birmingham, which stopped treatments after the ruling, said…that it was“moving to promptly resume” treatments.
The #law also shields “manufacturers of goods used to facilitate” #IVF or the transport of #embryos from #criminal charges, but stops short of providing blanket #immunity for those companies. While the law provides #legal immunity for clinics providing IVF, it doesn’t stipulate whether #FrozenEmbryos are people, as the AL Supreme Court did. #SCOTUS#Dobbs