‘I’m devastated’: Alabama IVF patients turn to GoFundMe for help after state ruling halts fertility services

When Heather Maurer first saw on the news that Alabama’s Supreme Court had ruled that frozen embryos could be considered “extrauterine children” under state law, she didn’t think much of it.  She and her husband, Chris Maurer, had already scheduled an appointment in March to transfer their final embryo — implanting it in the uterus to begin pregnancy — at a fertility center in Birmingham. The pair, who had started the fertility treatments more than four y