A bioethicist explores the moral questions of Alabama’s IVF ruling
Is a frozen embryo a child?The Alabama Supreme Court says yes. In ruling this month that three couples who lost frozen embryos in a storage facility accident could sue for wrongful death of a minor child, the court wrote that the “natural, ordinary, commonly understood meaning” of the word “child” includes an “unborn child” — whether that’s a fetus in a womb or an embryo in a freezer.Hospitals and clinics across the conservative state have since paused in vitro fertilization services as they scramble to figure out the…