{"id":104539,"date":"2024-02-29T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/alabama-house-passes-bill-to-ensure-ivf-access-after-court-ruled-embryos-are-children\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:06:29","slug":"alabama-house-passes-bill-to-ensure-ivf-access-after-court-ruled-embryos-are-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/alabama-house-passes-bill-to-ensure-ivf-access-after-court-ruled-embryos-are-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama House passes bill to ensure IVF access after court ruled embryos are children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-29\/GettyImages_AlabamaCapitol_022924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Andi Rice\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) &#8212; The Alabama House of Representatives has passed legislation to restore access to in vitro fertilization after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children raised questions about the treatment in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s vote, which was 94-6 with three abstentions, completes another step in a process that is ultimately expected to finish up late next week with Gov. Kay Ivey signing the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>Within days of the state court&#8217;s decision earlier this month, roughly half of Alabama&#8217;s IVF clinics paused treatment for fear that they could face wrongful death lawsuits or potentially criminal charges for discarding unused embryos, a routine part of IVF.<\/p>\n<p>But the House proposal, if enacted, would provide civil and criminal immunity &#8220;for death or damage&#8221; to an embryo as part of IVF services.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the Senate will vote on the bill on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the House will vote once more on the Senate\u2019s bill and the Senate will vote again on the House\u2019s bill &#8212; a dayslong process.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have told ABC News that they have reached consensus and don&#8217;t expect hiccups in the process, at this stage. If a lawmaker were to introduce an amendment, the timeline could be delayed. But at this point, none are expected.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andi Rice\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) &#8212; The Alabama House of Representatives has passed legislation to restore access to in vitro fertilization after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children raised questions about the treatment in Alabama. Thursday&#8217;s vote, which was 94-6 with three abstentions, completes<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/alabama-house-passes-bill-to-ensure-ivf-access-after-court-ruled-embryos-are-children\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}