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Protection of the embryo: the Alabama Supreme Court recognises that embryos are "unborn children"
Author / Source : IEB Published on : Thematic : Early life News Temps de lecture : 1 min.
The ruling was prompted by a complaint lodged against a clinic by three couples whose embryos stored for in vitro fertilisation were accidentally destroyed in 2020. The Supreme Court based its decision on the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act of 1872. The justices relied on specific case law (Mack v. Carmack) to define the term "minor child" and to declare that unborn children fell within that definition - "regardless of stage of development and regardless of location", in the words of Justice...