Last month, hospitals and clinics were forced to stop all in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally protected children. On 28 ...

IVF is a type of artificial reproductive technology that allows people with a range of fertility issues to conceive a child. It involves fertilizing an egg with sperm outside the body to form an ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

Heidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor of nursing at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 ended the federal right to abortion, legislative ...