It involves a poorly drafted statute that will be easy to change. The people who drafted it did not think about IVF.
The state court could have interpreted the statute as intended (similar to how the Supreme Court “saved” Obama care by correcting a drafting error that misplaced a “not” that turned the statute into gibberish), but instead they interpreted the statute according to what it said.
There is no deep philosophical matter involved (other than that legislators should not pass laws with reading them closely).