cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with shock waves being felt in the world of reproductive health care following a bombshell ivf ruling by alabama s supreme court. in friday s unprecedented decision, the all-republican court ruled that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children. now alabama s largest hospital is pausing all in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers across the state and the country evaluate what this means. the ruling could have a devastating effect for people who desperately want to have children in a state that already has one of the nation s strictest abortion laws. the decision may also make the already expensive cost of infertility skyrocket because of rising liability costs. to understand the possible impact, look at the numbers from the cdc. nearly 1,000 babies were born in the u.s. in 2021 using ivf treatments, that s more than 2% of a