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The economics of IVF

Major Alabama hospital pauses IVF after court rules frozen embryos are children.

A ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them, has opened up a new front in the US battle over reproductive medicine.

We hear how it could affect Alabama鈥檚 fertility clinics.

Also, in the programme, we will hear about the company driving a global stock market rally.

(Picture: Close up In the fertility laboratory the Doctor preparing embryo cultivation plates. Picture credit: Getty Images)

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27 minutes

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  • Thu 22 Feb 2024 15:32GMT