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Alabama Republicans were sent scrambling after the state’s Supreme Court triggered outrage nationwide by effectively banning in vitro fertilization, but critics say the legislative fix they’ve provided only makes the situation worse. The court’s ruling, which stemmed a botched fertility procedure lawsuit, held that frozen embryos were children under Alabama’s strict anti-abortion constitutional amendments. This would make IVF functionally impossible to administer by putting doctors under potential criminal liability for every embryo that is thrown away without being implanted — which is a nece…

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