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?

What happens when a client has unused frozen embryos but gets divorced? Who keeps the embryos? What if one person wants to use them to achieve pregnancy and the other person objects? Why did the court ...

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 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 ...

Frozen embryos are filling storage banks around the world. It's a struggle to know what to do with them. Lisa Holligan already had two children when she decided to try for another baby. Her first two ...

cases and I.V.F. disputes, the frozen embryos vials like these will hold are increasingly caught The Embryo Question is a three-part series about the cluster of cells at the crossroads of science, ...