The Republican-led Alabama state House and Senate passed concurrent bills on Thursday that provide legal protection to healthcare providers that perform in vitro fertilization services, an effort that comes in response to a controversial ruling from the state Supreme Court earlier this month that identified embryos as human children under the law.

The state House bill introduced by state GOP Rep. Terri Collins passed 94-6 and would extend civil and criminal immunity to providers of IVF services for the destruction of embryos created during the treatment process.