ESHRE-Review:
Call for EU-wide fertility rules
(sz) Laws on fertility treatment should be standardised across the European Union to deter ‘fertility tourism’, a leading expert has said.
Professor Paul Devroey said current disparities in rules meant infertile couples often had to travel to get the fertility treatment they wanted. But he warned this was not always based on good science. Professor Devroey was speaking a European Society for Human Reproduction and Embyrology meeting in Lyon, France.
He said some countries, including the UK, adopt a liberal, science-based approach to fertility treatments. However, others, he warned, either dismiss or misuse scientific information. Professor Devroey, chairman of ESHRE, warned such an approach could increase the risk to the mother and the child.
The variation in basic ethical principles in Europe is so great that it would be very difficult to find a common ground (Professor Bill Ledger, University of Sheffield) more…
From:»The BBC«