Parents travel to the Alabama State House for the IVF Advocacy Day

Montgomery, Ala. (WSFA) -More than 400 successful pregnancies took place in Alabama in -vitro, since the judgment of the state's Supreme Court on IVF was reversed last year.

Some of these mothers gathered in the Alabama State House on Thursday and kept their children nearby because they knew that their way of life was in danger.

“I was six weeks pregnant and went to my six -week ultrasound,” said Corrine O'Brien, founder of the Fight for the coalition of Alabama Family. O'Brien was said that her pregnancy would probably not work due to the judgment of the Supreme Court of Alabama that day.

The In an 8-1 judgment, judges interpreted the state law to recognize all frozen embryos As children, the rights of other unborn children give them.

This decision Asked the providers to start immediately with the break of fertility treatments In IVF Clinics nationwide.

“Thousands of lawyers in our state sent over 33,000 e -mails to the legislator, and over 350 of us came to the State House to tell our stories and ask our legislators to quickly remedy this,” said O'Brien.

A In the legislative period 2024, the immunity law was adopted In just five days, an invoice in Alabama can pass fastest. It only took nine minutes when the non -partisanity in the Senate went to the Senate until the moment when governor Kay Ivey signed it into the law.

“IVF is a life as possible,” said Nathaniel Ledbetter, spokesman for the Alabama House, who spoke at the meeting on Thursday. “It creates families in our state.”

However, the fight is not over. O'Brien says The IVF bill was made with challenges in court And could limit even more births.

“There were many discussions about the regulation of IVF, which would be harmful to our families. Listed regulations would increase the costs and the risk and familiarize families who could afford to look for IVF services in other countries, ”said O'Brien.

So far, no legal templates regarding IVF have been submitted during the 2025 legislative period.

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