
Alabama’s Embryo Personhood Decision Threatens Patients, Medicine and Advances in IVF
A state court ruling that embryos from in vitro fertilization are unborn children harms access to care for fertility patients, as well as medical innovations
H. Irene Su is a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. She is a reproductive endocrinologist and epidemiologist at UC San Diego Health. She holds an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a master of science degree in clinical epidemiology (M.S.C.E.) from University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Alabama’s Embryo Personhood Decision Threatens Patients, Medicine and Advances in IVF
A state court ruling that embryos from in vitro fertilization are unborn children harms access to care for fertility patients, as well as medical innovations