Alabama chief justice candidate Bryan Taylor has called on his opponent Sarah Stewart, a sitting justice on the Alabama Supreme Court, to recuse herself from further possible votes on the in-vitro fertilization case that has led IVF providers across the state to pause their services.

In a statement on Thursday, Taylor pointed to $979,000 in campaign contributions Stewart had received from political action committees that themselves had received significant contributions from Cunningham Bounds, a Mobile-based legal firm that represented the plaintiffs in the IVF case.

“After hearing oral arguments in the case last September, and while the case was under her consideration, Stewart’s campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from PACs heavily funded by the plaintiffs’ law firm in the case,” Taylor said.