#IVF treatments gave a cancer patient left infertile a chance to grow her family. It renewed hope in a mother who had struggled to conceive. And it offered a lesbian couple a path to pregnancy. Then, on Feb. 16, the #Alabama Supreme Court weighed in. With its chief justice quoting from the Bible, the state’s top court ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization are legally children and that people could be held liable for destroying them. After nearly three weeks of anguished pleas from families across the state, the governor on March 6 signed a law granting legal protections to both IVF providers and patients. But experts worry that the new law, which did not address when life begins, may prove fleeting. Here are the stories of three Alabama families whose lives were shaken by the court ruling. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2024/ivf-couples-alabama-ruling/ Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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