March 29, 2024
On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court (“the Court”), the highest court in the state, ruled that the destruction of
human embryos created through in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) violates the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act (“the Act”). The
Court determined that there is no exception to the Act based on an embryo’s location within or outside of a biological uterus.