The necessary reforms are being promoted so that Greece can adapt its legislation based on the latest scientific developments
Bill promoting the required reforms for the Medically Assisted Reproduction the government testified at Parliament.
The bill introduces the necessary regulations in order for Greece to adapt its legislation to the huge leaps that medical science has made in the last 17 years.
In this way, the framework of medically assisted reproduction is modernized and women’s rights are guaranteed.
In its main points draft law provided:
a) the increase of the age limit for women who can resort to medically assisted reproduction from 50 to 54 years of age, as well as the provision for granting a special license for medically assisted reproduction to women aged 50 years and 1 day to 54 years.
b) the possibility of cryopreservation of reproductive material, zygotes and fertilized eggs also for social reasons, and the abolition of the upper limit of 20 years regarding its duration,
c) the right of the individual to deposit unfertilized reproductive material for cryopreservation without the consent of his or her spouse or the party with whom he/she has entered into a cohabitation agreement or his/her partner, as well as for its free use in the event of divorce, annulment of the marriage, separation, termination or termination of the cohabitation agreement or termination of its free association,
d) the express provision that the disposal of reproductive material for the creation of Cryopreservation Banks regardless of the existence of recipients at the time of disposal is not a prohibited disposal.
e) the possibility of receiving and cryopreservation of a donor’s reproductive material from a Cryopreservation Bank, regardless of the existence of recipients in the given time period,
f) the ability of the donor to decide for himself or herself about his or her anonymity,
h) the establishment of a Medically Assisted Reproduction Unit (M.I.Y.A.) and a Cryopreservation Bank exclusively for the service of HIV-positive persons.
i) ensuring respect for the personality of intersex persons and their right to physical self-determination, as well as regulating the conditions under which, exceptionally, intervention in the gender characteristics of intersex minors will be permitted.
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