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The Warsaw Voice » Society » March 11, 2015

Government adopts long-delayed bill regulating IVF treatment

March 11, 2015

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Polish PM Ewa Kopacz and Health Minister Bartosz Arlukowicz

The Polish government passed a bill on financing in-vitro fertilization and combating infertility, PM Ewa Kopacz and Health Minister Bartosz Arlukowicz said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Under the new laws in vitro fertilization will be available to married and unwed couples.

IVF has been performed in Poland for the last 25 years but so far has lacked an adequate legal framework for the treatment.

The procedure will be available to couples who for at least 12 months had no results from any other method, Minister Arlukowicz said.

The new laws embrace all forms of infertility, which has become a civilizational ailment affecting around 1.5 million couples in Poland, PM Kopacz said.

The legislation forbids the creation of embryos for purposes other than in vitro conception. It also forbids the destruction of healthy embryos.

It says that spare embryos, if unused by the couple for 20 years, can be offered for adoption, but not destroyed.