Prognosis
These Alabama Clinics Are Still Doing IVF. Others Have Stopped.
A court ruling on embryos has left patients in limbo and care centers proceeding with caution.
An embryologist works on in vitro fertilization, or IVF, procedure.
Photographer: Sandy Huffaker/Bloomberg
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Across Alabama, fertility clinics phones won’t stop ringing. The main question from patients: Can I keep doing IVF?
“It’s been a panic,” said Brett Davenport, a doctor at the Fertility Institute of North Alabama, one of the shrinking number of clinics where in vitro fertilization is still available. “There is an overwhelming fear that IVF will not be able to be performed.”