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For an astonishing ten years now, Nick, an anti-abortion activist, has continued to fight for the right to gain custody of these embryos and to raise the children they could become.
It has been an extraordinary battle, raising serious legal and ethical questions but also — by dint of Sofia's celebrity status — seeming like a particularly outlandish soap opera storyline.
However Nick's continued insistence that his embryos are children seems less outlandish when you consider the new front in the U.S. battle over reproductive rights that was opened up in the States this week when Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children.
The ruling, delivered after a wrongful death lawsuit involved embryos that were lost at a fertility clinic in 2020, sent shockwaves across the States and led to Alabama's largest hospital suspending some of its IVF services, over fears the questions of the rights of frozen embryos could expose them to criminal prosecution.
Some potential parents are now caught in the hellish situation of investigating whether they can move their embryos to different states.
Pro-life activists — Nick among them — are watching this ruling closely. The question of when an embryo or foetus is legally considered a person is at the heart of his fight, too.
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It has been an extraordinary battle, raising serious legal and ethical questions but also — by dint of Sofia's celebrity status — seeming like a particularly outlandish soap opera storyline.
However Nick's continued insistence that his embryos are children seems less outlandish when you consider the new front in the U.S. battle over reproductive rights that was opened up in the States this week when Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children.
The ruling, delivered after a wrongful death lawsuit involved embryos that were lost at a fertility clinic in 2020, sent shockwaves across the States and led to Alabama's largest hospital suspending some of its IVF services, over fears the questions of the rights of frozen embryos could expose them to criminal prosecution.
Some potential parents are now caught in the hellish situation of investigating whether they can move their embryos to different states.
Pro-life activists — Nick among them — are watching this ruling closely. The question of when an embryo or foetus is legally considered a person is at the heart of his fight, too.
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Sofia Vergara's ex says he 'won't stop fighting' for their embryos
Sofia, 51, has said she thinks more about becoming a grandmother than a mother again. What woman, in her position, wouldn't sympathise? One man has a different - and rather startling - view
