When a first of its kind decision,
the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are
children and that a person can be held liable for
destroying them.
The case involves couples whose embryos were destroyed when a
patient removed them from a freezer and accidentally dropped them.
The court held that the patient could be held liable
in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Reproductive rights advocates say the case could have implications for
fertility treatments such as IVF and the hundreds of thousands
of patients who seek them every year.