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Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Renews Focus on Plastics, Chemical Exposure and Infertility
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are making it harder for people to reproduce, driving some toward in vitro fertilization. Now, they are threatened by Republican and anti-abortion politics.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The politically explosive Alabama Supreme Court decision that found frozen embryos could be considered children has focused national attention on assisted-reproduction services that are needed in part because human exposure to chemicals makes it harder for people to have babies.
Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Renews Focus on Plastics, Chemical Exposure and Infertility