Alabama lawmakers are moving to approve measures to protect in vitro fertilization clinics from lawsuits in response to last month's state Supreme Court ruling ...

On Monday, Cruz and Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, both conservative, anti-abortion Republicans, filed the IVF Protection Act, which would make states ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if they ...

Those states join Georgia, where lawmakers passed an IVF protection bill that takes effect Tuesday after growing confusion and concern among state residents about access to infertility treatment.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday urged Alabama's legislature to preserve the availability of in vitro fertilization in the state, one week after a court ruling that prompted multiple IVF ...

Alabama lawmakers, who face public pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted, are nearing approval of immunity legislation for providers.

In February 2024, the court ruled that for purposes of Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, frozen embryos held in storage by IVF clinics had the legal status of unborn children.

The bill says doctors, health care providers, hospitals and clinics have legal protection when it comes to IVF, unless there is “criminal negligence” or “general criminal intent.” ...

State Senator Thomas A. Pressly, R-Shreveport, walks to the senate floor at the State Capitol on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. In 2025, he sponsored a bill that aimed to protect IVF access in Louisiana.