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Gay couples win right to use IVF

09/05/2013

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BRASILIA. The Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) has approved a resolution that guarantees gay couples the right to resort to assisted reproduction to have children. The previous standard required that any person could be subjected to the procedure, but it was vague and left room for different interpretations. The new resolution, which will be published in today's Official Gazette, explains, first, the right of homosexual couples, a milestone in the fight for civil rights for homosexuals, although it is a caveat to establish which will be "respected right of conscientious objection of the doctor. "
Among the novelties are also regulating the disposal of frozen embryos for over five years, the establishment of an age limit to use the techniques of in vitro fertilization and normalization of the call Donation shared, when eggs from a woman are used by it and another to get pregnant. This is the third version of board resolution. The first is 1992, and had been modified only once, in December 2010.

In couples formed by two women, one of them may have their fertilized ovum and herself to continue the pregnancy. If you prefer, an egg can be inserted into the uterus of the female partner, so that the two have participation in the process. In couples consist of two men, they will have to look a woman in the family to carry on the pregnancy.

The CFM resolution states that the "womb" replacement must come from a family separated by up to four degrees of kinship. This means that if you need both a man and a woman can ask for a sister, mother, grandmother, aunt or cousin carry the baby. The previous limit was for relatives of first or second degree, which excluded aunts and cousins. The payment of a surrogacy remains prohibited.

Already a shared donation allows a woman who can not produce eggs custeie treatment of another who also want to get pregnant. In return, the donor gives half of her eggs.
With this, two women who could not get pregnant - A lack of financial conditions and the other for failing to produce viable eggs - may become mothers. However, the receiver must be ready to assume the risk of not being favored, since the donor must be at least four eggs.

Receiver does not meet donor
The donation was shared already practiced in clinics, but had not yet been regulated. By resolution, the two women did not know. The recipient will receive only information about the donor, such as physical characteristics and education, but will not know who it is. Remains forbidden to market eggs and sperm.

- There is commodification, but solidarity, because here there is not any profit. She'll have no pecuniary advantage, financial - said the President of CFM, Vital Carlos Corrêa Lima.

Today, those who can not afford to pay for their treatment may use the public health system. But only six cities offer this service: Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Recife, Natal, Goiânia and Ribeirão Preto (SP). As president of the Brazilian Society of Reproduction Assisitida (SBRA), Adelino Amaral, treatment in private clinics costs between R$ 15 000 and R$ 20 000, and the chances of succeeding are between 35% and 40%. Amaral says that 10% to 15% of Brazilian couples have fertility problems.

The resolution also establishes a maximum age for a woman to undergo treatment: 50. According to the CFM, this age was defined based on scientific criteria. It has also been established in 50 years the maximum age to donate sperm and 35 to donate eggs. A late pregnancy and is a result of reproductive cells of older people brings greater risks to safety of the mother and child.

The resolution also regulates the disposal of embryos preserved for over five years. Reached this period, parents will be able to discard them, donate them for stem cell research or donate them to other patients. If they prefer, they can keep them frozen too. In the case of stem cell research, the Biosafety Act allowed the use of frozen embryos for at least three years before the date on which it was sanctioned in March 2005. But said nothing about the embryos created after that.

- It is ground that there is no standard contradicting it. So we understand that this is absolutely not anti-juridical - Vital said.

The resolution also makes it clearer that the number of embryos transferred to the uterus of a woman will depend on the age of the egg donor, not the recipient. Be introduced to two embryos if they come from donors under 35 years, three when they are between 35 and 40 years and four when above 40.

- The physician who fails to comply with the resolution will be in moral deviation and regional councils medicine (CRMs) and CFM will work in citizen -  said Jose Hiran Gallo, treasurer of CFM and coordinator of the Technical Chamber of Assisted Reproduction CFM.

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