The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that embryos should be considered children.
The ruling led to the creation of a law to protect the right to an abortion. The law was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by the governor on Wednesday. The new law protects the right of parents to choose whether or not their child is born with an embryo that can be fertilized by an egg donor. It also protects the rights of the mother to choose not to give birth to an embryo if she does not want to.