Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama Supreme Court says yes. In a recent ruling that three couples who lost frozen embryos in a storage facility accident could sue for wrongful death of a minor ...

Advances in organoids and embryonic models of human development have the potential to prompt social and existential questions—e.g., what defines human individuality? However, bioethicist Insoo Hyun of ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: The ethical and legal issues of IVF, or in vitro fertilization, are complicated. For many, IVF is more than a medical procedure; it's about the profound ...

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Three of Kristia Rumbley's embryos created at a clinic became her 7-year-old twins and 2-year-old son, while three have sat in freezers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...

(RNS) — A recent ruling in Alabama that declared frozen embryos to be children has led to fierce debates in politics and on social media. For families who have leftover embryos, the issues are more ...

Do human embryos deserve the same protections as human beings? This is the question that drove three sets of parents—whose embryonic children were destroyed at an Alabama hospital's fertility ...

cases and I.V.F. disputes, the frozen embryos vials like these will hold are increasingly caught The Embryo Question is a three-part series about the cluster of cells at the crossroads of science, ...