A decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law has some reproductive rights advocates and fertility law experts in Canada concerned about a potential ripple effect.
The worry isn’t necessarily that a decision like the one in Alabama, that was issued in wrongful death cases brought by couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident, could happen here, experts say.
Case law in Canada makes it clear that embryos aren’t persons, and the criminal code states that a child becomes a human being only “when it has completely proceeded, in a living state,
