One of the first documents patients sign when starting in vitro fertilization asks them to consider the very end of their treatment: What would they like to do with extra embryos, if they have any?

When Kristia Rumbley, a mother of four living in the Birmingham area, first heard about the Alabama Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on frozen embryos, her first thought was of her own. Rumbley, ...

A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be a record length of storage time before a birth. In what’s ...

A court ruling that deemed frozen embryos “children” has motivated some patients and clinics to move embryos out of red states. Tanks of liquid nitrogen used to store embryos at a fertility clinic in ...