For the first time in national history, a law has passed that recognizes frozen embryos as human beings. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on February 16, 2024, that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are now considered children, creating a domino effect of emotions ranging from immense fear to sheer rage across fertility clinics, doctors’ offices, and the infertility community. The feeling of helplessness from this loss of control and outrage over the situation as a whole is triggering for many and will likely exacerbate the feelings of anxiety, shame, outrage, guilt, grief, helplessness, and uncertainty that the infertility process already evokes in those struggling to build their families. You are not........

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