{"id":126382,"date":"2024-02-28T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126382"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:07:14","slug":"alabama-embryo-ruling-may-have-devastating-effect-on-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126382","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alabama embryo ruling may have devastating effect on cancer patients&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/02\/25\/cancer-ivf-alabama-embryos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;A cancer diagnosis often comes with a host of difficult decisions, including what to do about the impact of treatment on a person\u2019s fertility. Many individuals grappling with this dual burden turn to in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to preserve their reproductive options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That\u2019s why cancer patients and oncologists are expressing shock and anxiety about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/02\/20\/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-embryos\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0that frozen embryos are considered children under the law&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Many physicians today say that egg and embryo freezing can be used as safety nets for people with cancer in case they decide to have a family in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;A cancer diagnosis often comes with a host of difficult decisions, including what to do about the impact of treatment on a person\u2019s fertility. Many individuals grappling with this dual burden turn to in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to preserve their reproductive options. That\u2019s why cancer patients and oncologists are expressing shock&#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-126382","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\/126382","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=126382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126383,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382\/revisions\/126383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}