Alabama governor signs bill to protect IVF treatments into law

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Alabama governor signs bill to protect IVF treatments into law

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a GOP-proposed bill intended to protect in vitro fertilization into law on Wednesday night, following weeks of backlash prompted by a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered children.
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The swift action by the Republican-dominated Legislature capped a tumultuous weeks-long sprint by lawmakers in the ruby red state sparked by the state Supreme Court's controversial ruling.

While the legislation enacted late Wednesday fails to answer the core question prompted by the court's decision — whether an embryo created by IVF should be treated as a child under Alabama law — the measure's Republican supporters were hopeful it would serve as a short-term solution that would allow clinics in the state that had halted their services to reopen.
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The enacted legislation doesn’t define or clarify whether under state law frozen embryos created via IVF have the same rights as children. Rather, the narrowly tailored bill is designed to protect doctors, clinics and other health care personnel who provide IVF treatment and services by offering such workers civil and criminal “immunity.”

I guess I'm confused. Are doctors, clinics and other health care personnel given immunity if they dispose of embryos that aren't implanted?

As I recall, the court case that spurred this to begin with was one in which a lab worker dropped a petri dish containing embryos, destroying the embryos (thereby "killing the children").
 
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