India, Feb. 23 -- The Alabama state supreme court's ruling that embryos used for IVF are "children" under the law has drawn a strong rebuke from Joe Biden, who said that this and other attacks on reproductive rights by the right-wing are "a direct consequence of the reversal of Roe v Wade".

The state court's ruling, which declared that embryos created through IVF are children under Alabama law, has led to the suspension of IVF treatments at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The ruling also raised legal questions over the fate of unused embryos that are typically discarded or donated in the IVF process.

Biden issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, denouncing the state court's ruling as a "direct result" of the U.S. Supreme Cour...