Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday evening protecting in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments after a February decision by the state Supreme Court led some fertility clinics to pause their procedures.

Senate Bill 159, a bipartisan piece of legislation, was met with heavy support from state lawmakers and quickly moved through the legislature to ensure clinics could confidently resume operations for IVF patients.

"Alabama works to foster a culture of life, and that certainly includes IVF," Ivey said in a statement Wednesday night. "I am pleased to sign this important, short-term measure into law so that couples in Alabama hoping and praying to be parents can grow their families through IVF."

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The law is designed to protect medical professionals from civil and criminal immunity in case of unintentional death or damage to an embryo following a ruling made by the state Supreme Court allowing three couples who lost frozen embryos during a mishap at a storage facility to file for wrongful death claims.

The Justices cited language in the Alabama Constitution that allows parents to sue over the death of a minor child and said that the 1872 law "applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location." Alabamians also voted in 2018 to add language recognizing the "rights of unborn children."

"Unborn children are ‘children’ ... without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics," Justice Jay Mitchell wrote in the ruling.

Justice Greg Cook, who filed the only full dissent to the majority opinion, said a minor is not defined under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act and that using the law to cover frozen embryos is stretching original intent.

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Ivey said she understands IVF is a "complex issue" and she anticipates "there will be more work to come," but the priority was to "provide the assurances" fertility clinics needed so the ones who paused treatments could "resume services immediately."

"Let me say clearly: Alabama supports growing families through IVF. From protecting the unborn to supporting IVF, Alabama is proud we are a pro-life, pro-family state," Ivey said.

Alabama Fertility, one of the clinics that paused IVF treatments last month, said on its Instagram page Wednesday afternoon before the bill became law that it is "ready to re-start IVF treatments as soon as tomorrow."

The law is effective immediately and applies retroactively, excluding pending litigation.

Outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry claimed that people would "feel better" about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would "make a greater effort to reduce emissions."

"If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now," Kerry said during a foreign press briefing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his last as the SPEC, as he departed from the position Wednesday to reportedly join President Biden's presidential re-election campaign.

"Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time," he said. 

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Kerry's remarks came after a Russian news agency reporter, Igor Naimushin, asked him about the U.S. relationship with Russia on his climate agenda. 

"I believe that Russia has the ability to be able to make enormous changes if it really wanted to. I mean, if Russia has the ability to wage a war illegally and invade another country, they ought to be able to find the effort to be responsible on the climate issue," Kerry said. 

"And unfortunately, because of the actions that Russia took in an unprovoked, illegal war against another nation, we have not been engaged in discussions with Russia, sadly," he continued. "I say "sadly" because it’s a loss for the world not to be able to have Russia acting constructively on this issue."

The comments were the latest example of Kerry warning about the climate change implications of war in Ukraine. 

Kerry previously came under fire after saying that a key consequence of the ongoing Ukraine war stemming from Russia's invasion last year is increased global greenhouse gas emissions.

"Lots of parts of the world are exacerbating the problem right now, but when you have bombs going off, and you have damage to septic tanks or to power centers, etcetera, you have an enormous release of greenhouse gas, methane, all of the family of greenhouse gasses and the result is it's adding to the problem," Kerry said during a July 2023 interview with MSNBC.

Shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Kerry told multiple media outlets that he was concerned about emissions from a potential military conflict.

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"Equally, importantly, you’re going to lose people’s focus," Kerry told BBC in February 2022. "You’re going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact. Hopefully [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land. Now, it’s thawing."

"I am concerned in terms of the climate efforts that a war is the last thing you need with respect to a united effort to try to deal with the climate challenge," Kerry told Reuters in a separate interview that same day. "Obviously, we hope that we can compartmentalize, but it’s just made that much more difficult without any question."

In 2021, Biden appointed Kerry to be the U.S. SPEC, a position that had not previously existed and did not require Senate approval.

Kerry traveled worldwide, attending high-profile climate summits and diplomatic engagements in an effort to push a global transition from fossil fuels to green energy alternatives.

Kerry's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Fox News' Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.