Texas Supreme Court Declines to Classify Embryos as Children (1)

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up an in vitro fertilization case that argues embryos should be treated as children under the state’s near total abortion ban.

The denial means non-implanted embryos in Texas can continue to be destroyed without legal consequences.

Groups on both sides of the abortion battle had been curious to see if the court would respond to a politically fraught issue that had never before come up in Texas but has gotten attention in other Republican states. Earlier this year, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos qualify as people under the state’s ...