Bracey Harris is a national reporter for NBC News, based in Jackson, Mississippi.
An Alabama clinic at the center of a legal battle that sparked fears nationwide about the future of in vitro fertilization is quietly rescheduling embryo transfers. It had paused IVF procedures in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling in February that frozen embryos can be considered children.
Although two of the three providers — Alabama Fertility and the University of Alabama at Birmingham — quickly announced that the law’s passage would allow them to resume treatments, the Center for Reproductive Medicine initially opted to keep its IVF services on hold. A spokesperson for Mobile Infirmary and the clinic said it would not reopen until it had “legal clarification on the extent of immunity provided by the new Alabama law.
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