France, known for having western Europe’s strictest rules governing medically-assisted pregnancies, debates IVF bill in parliament. More here:
PARIS - France risks a shortage of frozen sperm if lawmakers approve new legislation that allows single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilization and abolishes the right of sperm and egg donors to keep their identities secret, clinicians said.
Health Minister Agnes Buzyn forecasts a roughly two-thirds increase in demand for IVF procedures, with an extra 2,000 women annually registering for treatment. “To say ‘everything is going to be ok’ would be burying your head in the sand,” Nathalie Rives, president of the CECOS federation, told Reuters.
Medically assisted reproduction - such as IVF - is widely available to all women in countries such as Britain, Belgium, Spain. But in France, it has fed into a broader debate about the commercialization of healthcare and gay rights.
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