The Alabama Supreme Court has made an unprecedented ruling, declaring that frozen embryos are legally children. This decision could have significant implications for the future of fertility treatments as well as for the contentious debates over abortion rights and personhood. The case was brought by a couple undergoing a custody dispute over their frozen embryos, following their divorce. The court’s decision ruled in favor of the parent seeking to have the embryos brought to term, upending previous rulings and legislation that have generally treated embryos as property rather than persons.
