The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it would continue retrieving eggs from women's ovaries, but would halt the next step in the IVF process.
A ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them, has opened up a new front in the US battle over reproductive medicine.
The southern US state's largest hospital has paused its in-vitro fertilisation services in the wake of the decision, over fears it could expose them to criminal prosecution.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it would continue retrieving eggs from women's ovaries.
But it said it would halt the next step in the IVF process, in which the eggs are fertilised with sperm before being implanted into the uterus.
Medical experts and reproductive advocacy groups warned the ruling could have negative consequences for fertility treatments in Alabama and beyond.
Conservative groups welcomed the ruling, arguing that even the tiniest embryo deserved legal protection.
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