{"id":320000,"date":"2024-10-08T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320000"},"modified":"2024-10-07T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:37:07","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-ivf-clinics-appeal-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-ivf-clinics-appeal-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects IVF clinic’s appeal of Alabama ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected<\/a> an appeal<\/a> from an Alabama fertility clinic on Monday, which sought to overturn a ruling<\/a> by the Alabama Supreme Court that allowed parents to sue the clinic for the wrongful deaths of their embryos.<\/p>\n

The justices denied the appeal from the Center for Reproductive Medicine, which was sued by Felicia Burdick-Aysenne and Scott Aysenne in 2021 for wrongful death, after a patient at the hospital where the fertility clinic is located was able to gain unauthorized access to the cryogenic embryo storage area and remove several embryos. The embryos were dropped on the floor and thus destroyed, including the only remaining embryo of Burdick-Ayseene and Aysenne. The couple also sued the hospital.<\/p>\n

The state supreme court ruled that the couple’s suit could move forward because their embryos could be considered children under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. As a result of that state Supreme Court ruling, some in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in Alabama paused their treatments.<\/p>\n