{"id":125943,"date":"2024-02-23T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125943"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:24:00","slug":"shock-anger-confusion-grip-alabama-after-court-ruling-on-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=125943","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shock, anger, confusion grip Alabama after court ruling on embryos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/02\/20\/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-embryos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Alabama doctors are puzzled over whether they will have to make changes to in vitro fertilization procedures. Couples have crammed into online support groups wondering if they should transfer frozen embryos out of state. And attorneys are warning that divorce settlements that call for frozen embryos to be destroyed may now be void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Throughout Alabama, there is widespread shock, anger and confusion over how to proceed after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/02\/19\/alabama-supreme-court-embryos-children-ivf\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people<\/a>, a potentially far-reaching decision that could upend women\u2019s reproductive health care in a state that already has one of the nation\u2019s strictest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/abortion\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion<\/a>\u00a0laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Alabama doctors are puzzled over whether they will have to make changes to in vitro fertilization procedures. Couples have crammed into online support groups wondering if they should transfer frozen embryos out of state. And attorneys are warning that divorce settlements that call for frozen embryos to be destroyed may now be void. Throughout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125944,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125943\/revisions\/125944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}