Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.
When Republicans in Alabama enacted a law earlier this year to protect in vitro fertilization following a court decision that halted the treatment in the deeply conservative state, they pitched it as a temporary fix. They vowed to revisit the issue before the state Legislature adjourned and promised to work on a bill they said would serve to protect IVF long term in Alabama, where the state Supreme Court had ruled that embryos are children — a decision that created a national uproar.
” To the chagrin of many Republican and Democratic lawmakers, the enacted legislation failed to define or clarify whether under state law frozen embryos created via IVF have the same rights as children. Many of the bill’s Republican supporters said its purpose was to serve as a short-term solution intended to allow clinics in the state that had halted their services to reopen. “Getting the clinics open was our priority,” Collins said during one of her floor speeches.
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