ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is working to ensure prospective parents struggling with infertility have access to the proper care.

This comes a week after the Alabama Supreme Court made a first-of-its kind ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. Because of the ruling, popular treatments to address infertility —like in vitro fertilization— have began to stop.

The ruling puts many doctors at risk of legal action.

Gillibrand is now introducing what’s called the Access to Family Building Act, which would protect women’s right to access this kind of care, a medical provider’s right to provide it, and the insurer’s right to cover it.

“For many prospective parents, IVF is a last ditch effort to have a family,” Gillibrand said. “Preventing them from accessing the treatments they need is not only cruel, but it’s absurd. This ruling is a threat to reproductive health everywhere. And it is concerning, because it could embolden other states across the country to follow suit.”

One Republican, Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, is cosponsoring the bill. It’s been referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor and Pensions.