Alabama case in which state Supreme Court held frozen embryos are "children" for purposes of wrongful death settles and is dismissed

 The lawsuit that led to a highly-publicized Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos in a lab count as “minor children,” was dismissed Wednesday after plaintiffs settled their wrongful death claims against the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic and Mobile hospital.  Go here for the full story. 

This result is important for the parties, of course, but the more important part of the story was the ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court back in February.  You can read my posts on that decision here, here and here.