The IVF Patients Scrambling to Get Their Frozen Embryos Out of Alabama

Caroline Veazey woke up in a panic on Thursday and immediately started searching for any new statements from fertility clinics in the state of Alabama. It had been six days since the Alabama Supreme Court released a decision declaring frozen embryos as children under Alabama law, and she had six embryos she was trying to get out of the state as fast as possible. The day before, 30-year-old Veazey and her fiancée, 38-year-old Kandis Pulliam, spent the entire day making calls and sending emails. Veazey got a quote for shipping frozen embryos of $780, not including insurance or other fees. She set up a GoFundMe to help with the total cost of moving the embryos to another state, and then eventually — hopefully — for travel expenses of going to that state for fertility treatment. They are now in limbo, scrambling to gain access to their own biological material and hang onto hope of conceiving. Veazey, who has already lived through the physical and emotional pain of egg retrieval, is afraid her embryos won’t be able to get out of the state. “If that happens, I think I’m going to end up in a mental hospital, and that is not exaggerating,” she said.

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