Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Renews Focus on Plastics, Chemical Exposure and Infertility

Photo caption: Elizabeth Goldman, an IVF patient, shows a photo of her child during a roundtable with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Feb. 27 in Birmingham, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth / Inside Climate News. Article by James Bruggers and Lee Hedgepeth. Inside Climate News – March 4, 2024.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The politically explosive Alabama Supreme Court decision that found frozen embryos could be considered children has focused national attention on assisted-reproduction services that are needed in part because human exposure to chemicals makes it harder for people to have babies. Toxic chemicals derived from fossil fuels and used in plastic and other forms of packaging, or in food processing, or in herbicides or pesticides are increasingly associated with a variety of health problems, including those involving human reproduction. […]

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