Another Alabama IVF clinic is to close at year’s end

An Alabama IVF clinic that kept providing in vitro fertilization treatments even while others suspended them during weeks of uncertainty following a state Supreme Court ruling says it will close January 1 – further narrowing IVF options in a state that already had few providers.

An Alabama IVF clinic that kept providing in vitro fertilization treatments even while others suspended them during weeks of uncertainty following a state Supreme Court ruling says it will close January 1 – further narrowing IVF options in a state that already had few providers. “After 20 incredible years of serving our community, it is with mixed emotions that we announce the closure of Huntsville Reproductive Medicine,” Dr. Andrew Harper, medical director for the clinic in Madison, in a release posted this week on Facebook. Huntsville Reproductive Medicine will stop accepting new patients after September 5, the release reads. Huntsville Reproductive Medicine kept providing IVF services during weeks of tumult in Alabama’s fertility industry that came after the state Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos are children and those who destroy them could be held liable for wrongful death. Some Alabama IVF providers at least temporarily paused IVF services that month, with providers fearing the ruling would mean they could face legal repercussions every time an embryo did not turn into a successful pregnancy. Harper chose not to pause services during that time of uncertainty. “If some DA or attorney general wants to come after me, bring it on,” Harper told CNN in February. “You better believe we’re not going down without a fight.”