The Alabama Ruling That Could Stop Families From Having Kids

阿拉巴马州可能阻止家庭生孩子的裁决

The Daily

2024-02-26

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A surprise ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court has halted fertility treatments across the state and sent a shock wave through the world of reproductive health. Azeen Ghorayshi, who covers sex, gender, and science for The Times, explains what the court case means for reproductive health and a patient in Alabama explains what it is like navigating the fallout.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.

  • This is the daily today, the story of how a surprise ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court halted fertility treatments across the state and sent a shockwave through the world of reproductive health.

  • I spoke with my colleague Azim Qureshi about the court case itself and to a patient in Alabama about what it's like to navigate the fallout.

  • It's Monday, February 26.

  • Azim.

  • This Alabama ruling really seemed to come almost out of nowhere for a lot of us.

  • And in a world where we frequently track court cases and we expect them on a certain date, this didn't fall into that category.

  • It was a genuine legal surprise.

  • So tell us the story behind this case.

  • Yeah.

  • So the actual incident at the center of this case happened in December 2020 at a fertility clinic in Mobile, Alabama.

  • Basically, a person ended up wandering into the storage room of this fertility clinic, which happened to be located in the hospital.

  • They opened a tank where frozen embryos were stored, pulled out a vial and dropped them on the ground, and those embryos were destroyed.