America's first IVF baby is fighting to protect the procedure amid a Supreme Court decision in Alabama that has declared frozen embryos to be children. Now, she is working to protect IVF access in the midst of Alabama's recent Supreme Court ruling, which considered embryos chidren. Pictured here is Ms Carr as a child at a news conference in the 1980s'My life gives people hope,' Ms Carr told the Wall Street Journal. With possible consequences for discarding the unused embryos, doctors may be barred from fertilizing eggs that won’t end up being implanted. Alabama doctors have been fielding calls from nervous patients like Gabby Goidel, 26, who chose to try in vitro fertilization after several miscarriages due to unexplained genetic infertility.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2024 05:55 UTC