Some IVF is resuming at Alabama clinic at the center of controversial ruling

Some IVF procedures are resuming at the Center for Reproductive Medicine, the Alabama clinic where destroyed embryos led to a pivotal state Supreme Court ruling.

An Alabama clinic at the center of a legal battle that sparked fears nationwide about the future of in vitro fertilization is quietly rescheduling embryo transfers. It had paused IVF procedures in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling in February that frozen embryos can be considered children. 

Two patients at the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile said they were told on Friday that certain IVF procedures would resume on April 1. A spokesperson for the clinic did not immediately confirm this but told NBC News earlier in the week that the facility had started scheduling embryo transfer appointments.

Robin Banks, 39, said she and her husband, Joshua, 42, had planned to create embryos in early March. Now, after weeks of limbo, they learned Friday that they would be able to move forward.

Robin Banks had decided to freeze her eggs in 2017 after learning she had ovarian cancer and that chemotherapy could affect her fertility. Almost a decade later, in remission and newly married, she was ready to start a family when the court ruling landed.

“It’s just disappointing that all this is happening just weeks before we were given our chance,” Robin Banks said earlier this week.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ivf-ruling-alabama-clinic-controversy-resuming-rcna144425

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