LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.

LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., 2024 WL 656591, ___ So.3d ___ (Ala. Feb. 16, 2024), reh’g overruled 2024 WL 1947312, ___ So.3d ___ (Ala. May 3, 2024). Fertility clinic patients brought action against clinic and hospital alleging deaths of extrauterine embryos were actionable under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, Ala. Code § 6-5-391 (1975). Supreme Court holds that the Wrongful Death of Minor Act applies to all children, born and unborn, including frozen embryos kept in a cryogenic nursery.

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