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Laws and regulations

Regulations and assisted conception treatment

Laws and regulations governing Assisted Conception Treatments varies between different countries. In some countries such as USA and Australia, each state has its own legislation.

Forms of Assisted Conceptions Treatment

Some countries forbid all forms of assisted conception treatments using donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos and surrogacy such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, while others allow donor sperm but no egg or embryo donation and no surrogacy as in Norway and Japan.

The number of embryos to be transferred

Some countries have legislation with limit to the maximum number of embryos to be transferred such as United Kingdom, France, Australia and Germany.

Some countries have guidelines specify limit but no enforcement mechanism such as Egypt, USA and Japan. Whereas, some countries have neither legislation nor guidelines such as Greece and Canada.

New Belgium legislation imposes on women less than 36 years a restriction to single embryo transfer (SET) in their first treatment cycle.

Freezing spare embryos

Human embryo freezing is allowed in some countries such as UK and not allowed in others as in Sweden.

The storage period also varies from a limited period of 2 years as in Denmark to 10 years as in UK and unlimited period for infertile couples as in Finland.

Anonymity of gamete donors

Countries such as UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway have passed new legislation abolishing the anonymity of gamete donors (egg, sperm and embryo donors).

Treating single women

Treating single women is allowed in some countries but not in others such as Sweden and Denmark. Even in the same countries such as Australia, some estate will allow single women to be treated while others do not.

Mixing eggs, sperm or embryos from more than one person

This is forbidden in the United Kingdom (HFEA Act).

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User Contributed Notes

Dr Samuel Marcus
11-Jun-2004 12:44

New UK regulations (HFEA 2004) limit the number of embryos to be transferred in any treatment cycle to two embryos. The transfer of three embryos is now limited to women aged 40 years or older. New Italian laws (2004) ban both freezing and destroying embryos, limit to three the number of eggs to be fertilized and state that all the created embryos must be transferred. Furthermore, they restrict the use of assisted conception treatments to infertile couples.

Dr Samuel Marcus 11-Aug-2004 13:50
`The new laws in Italy also forbid screening embryos for genetic disease.`

Last updated: Mon, 05 May 2008 - 4:22:45
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