IVF

What Is IVF? Here’s Why People Choose It and How It Works

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled (PDF) in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization have the same legal rights as children, moving the national spotlight on a medical procedure many people use to become pregnant and grow their families.  Some fertility clinics in Alabama paused their services, out of new legal concern for the handling … Read more

Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time

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In October, Melissa began an in vitro fertilization cycle. A resident of Birmingham, Alabama, her fertility journey to that point had been not just difficult, but harrowing—earlier that year, she had nearly bled to death during a procedure to resolve a second-trimester miscarriage. When the IVF process yielded just a single viable embryo, she had … Read more