It is not incompatible to protect “life” while ensuring families continue to have access to IVF treatments following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling determining the specimens are “children,” Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., said Thursday.

“My goal is for Alabama to be the best place in the world to live, work, worship, and raise a family. Make no mistake—defending life and ensuring continued access to IVF services for loving parents are not mutually exclusive,” Alabama’s junior senator said in a statement Thursday night to AL.com.

“Ultimately, IVF helps create life and grow families, and it deserves the protection of the law,” Britt continued.

“I’ll continue to advance a culture of life while ensuring moms and children have the opportunities and resources they need to thrive and live their American Dream.”

The senator, who is pro-life, did not comment on whether she agrees with the court ruling that frozen embryos are “children.”

In the wake of Friday’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling, bills in the Alabama House and Senate are being crafted that states any fertilized human egg or human embryo outside of a human uterus “under any circumstances” would not be considered “an unborn child, a minor child, a natural person, or any other term that connotes a human being for any purpose under state law.”

The court decision led the University of Alabama at Birmingham health to pause in vitro fertilization procedures, citing fears of prosecution. Multiple others offering IVF services in Homewood, Huntsville and Mobile on Thursday paused the procedure as well.

Britt’s counterpart, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said he was “all for” the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling and disagreed with the facilities’ decisions to pause treatments.

“I was all for it,” Tuberville told reporters following his appearance at CPAC in Washington, D.C. “We need to have more kids, we need to have an opportunity to do that, and I think this was the right thing to do.”

Reporters told Tuberville that the ruling had the opposite effect — causing IVF treatments to pause at several Alabama facilities.

Asked if he was concerned on the impact the decision would have on Alabama families trying to have children, Tuberville responded, “That’s for another conversation…we need more kids, we need more people to have the opportunity to have more kids.”

“That’s a hard one, it really is,” the senator said, “because again, you want people to have that opportunity. … we need more kids.”

Asked to clarify his remarks, Tuberville spokeswoman Hannah Eddins gave AL.com this statement:

“Sen. Tuberville was emphasizing his support for life at all stages. In addition to being pro-life and believing life begins at conception, Senator Tuberville is also pro-family. He believes strong families are instrumental to our country’s success,” Eddins said. “In no way was he supporting the reaction from various medical facilities to cancel IVF procedures in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling. He supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe to return decisions surrounding life back to the states, which allows constituents to have a say in these significant decisions at the ballot box.”