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Personhood, IVF, and Fertility Care in Alabama: Laura Hercher MS '01 for The Scientific American

On February 16, the Alabama Supreme Court brought fertility care in that state to a screeching halt—and started a national conversation—by declaring that frozen embryos were people in the eyes of the law. Read Director of Research and Human Genetics faculty Laura Hercher’s recent piece “’s recent piece “How Arguments that Embryos Are People Pose a Threat to IVF” in in The Scientific American.

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