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Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology

Australia

• Health Care Analysis
  • Do Doctors Have a Responsibility to Challenge the Distorting Influence of Commerce on Healthcare Delivery? The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology [2025]

• Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
  • The Parliamentary Inquiry into Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis [2024]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Mitochondrial donation: is Australia ready? [2022]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Ethical guidelines for Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Embryo research licensing

• Queensland Health
  • Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2024 [2024]

• SA Health
  • Assisted reproductive treatment legislation

• Social Science & Medicine
  • 'Like going to get a facial': Heterotopic spaces and gendered aesthetics of commercial Australian reproductive clinics [2024]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Cross-border reproductive care [2021]

Australia, United Kingdom

• Medical Law Review
  • Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine [2024]

Austria, Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Patterns of globalized reproduction: Egg cells regulation in Israel and Austria [2012]

Brazil

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Reproduction in cisgender same-sex couples: a scoping review [2024]

• JBRA Assisted Reproduction
  • Comparative analysis of ethical standards for the utilization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Brazil: Resolutions from 1992 to 2023 [2025]
  • Quality of information provided by Brazilian Fertility Clinic websites: Compliance with Brazilian Medical Council (CFM) and American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Guidelines [2023]
  • Critical Analysis of The Changes in CFM Resolution 2294/21 And Its Impacts on Assisted Human Reproduction [2022]

Canada

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • The high-priority ethical issues of advanced paternal age: perspectives from a panel of experts in the fields of men reproduction and family building [2025]

• Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society
  • Guidelines for Third Party Reproduction [2016]

• CMAJ
  • “CRISPR babies”: What does this mean for science and Canada? [2019]

• Frontiers in Medicine
  • Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Pragmatic Reforms in Support of Research [2019]

• Health Canada
  • Assisted human reproduction

• Justice Laws Website
  • Assisted Human Reproduction Act [2004]

China

• Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
  • Obstacles to Exercising Reproductive Rights for Single Women in China and Legal Recommendations [2023]

Costa Rica

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Moderating Influence of International Courts on Social Movements: Evidence from the IVF Case Against Costa Rica [2017]

• JBRA Assisted Reproduction
  • IVF in Costa Rica [2017]

Estonia

• Reproductive Health
  • Quality of IVF status registration in the Estonian Medical Birth Registry: a national record linkage study [2018]

Europe

• BioMed Research International
  • The Evolution of Legislation in the Field of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Embryo Stem Cell Research in European Union Members [2014]

• European Society of Human Genetics
  • Responsible innovation in human germline gene editing: Background document to the recommendations of ESHG and ESHRE [2018]
  • Human germline gene editing: Recommendations of ESHG and ESHRE [2018]
  • Current issues in medically assisted reproduction and genetics in Europe: research, clinical practice, ethics, legal issues and policy [2013]

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • Survey on ART and IUI: legislation, regulation, funding, and registries in European countries-an update [2024]
  • Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donation [2022]
  • Statements by the Task Force Ethics and Law

• La Clinica Terapeutica
  • Advances in Medically-assisted procreation technologies: can malpractice claims and “reproductive damage” be identified? [2020]

France

• Social Science & Medicine
  • The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain [2024]

Ghana

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Ethical constraints and dilemmas in the provision of in-vitro fertilization treatment in Ghana: from the perspectives of experts [2024]

• Ghana Medical Journal
  • Legal and ethical challenges in assisted reproductive technology practice in Ghana [2024]

India

• India Code
  • The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 [2021]

• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Assisted reproductive technologies: Conundrums and challenges [2018]

• JBRA Assisted Reproduction
  • Ethical Considerations in Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review [2024]

• Reproduction and Fertility
  • The landscape of assisted reproductive technology access in India [2024]

Indian subcontinent

• Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
  • Postmortem sperm retrieval in context of developing countries of Indian subcontinent [2016]

International

• Human Reproduction Update
  • Parents' disclosure to their donor-conceived children in the last 10 years and factors affecting disclosure: a narrative review [2024]

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • Inherited regulation for advanced ARTs: comparing jurisdictions' applications of existing governance regimes to emerging reproductive technologies [2022]

Iran

• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
  • The process of justifying assisted reproductive technologies in Iran [2015]

• Journal of Reproduction & Infertility
  • Embryo Donation in Iranian Legal System: A Critical Review [2015]

Ireland

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • The evolution of health policy guidelines for assisted reproduction in the Republic of Ireland, 2004-2009 [2011]

• Irish Statute Book
  • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 [2024]

Israel

• Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
  • Posthumous Sperm Use in Times of War: Ethics, Law and Society [2024]

• Ministry of Health Israel
  • Reproductive Health & Surrogacy

Israel, Spain

• Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
  • Regulatory responses to assisted reproductive technology: a comparative analysis of Spain and Israel [2019]

Italy

• BMC Women's Health
  • Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women’s autonomy and health matter? [2016]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • 20 Years Since the Enactment of Italian Law No. 40/2004 on Medically Assisted Procreation: How It Has Changed and How It Could Change [2025]
  • An Update on Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation (POC) in Italy: Medical, Epidemiological and Legal Consideration [2022]

• Journal of Public Health Research
  • Medically Assisted Procreation and Fast-Moving Developments in Science and Law: Ethical and Legal Issues in Heterologous Procreation in Italy [2015]

• La Clinica Terapeutica
  • Access to medically-assisted procreation: the withdrawal of paternal consent in the maze of law n. 40/2004 [2024]
  • Recent Judgement of the Italian Judiciary about medical assisted procreation (MAP): is informed consent valid after parents separation? [2021]
  • No more only one mom? European Court of Human Rights and Italian jurisprudences’ ongoing evolution [2020]

Kazakhstan

• Acta Medica Academica
  • Establishment of a Unified Register of Donor Sexual Gametes in the Republic of Kazakhstan [2024]

Kenya

• Kenya Law
  • The Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2022 [2022]

Maldives

• Ministry of Health Maldives
  • National Standard for Assisted Reproductive Technology in the Maldives [2023]

Mexico

• Reproductive Health
  • The need for regulation in the practice of human assisted reproduction in Mexico. An overview of the regulations in the rest of the world [2021]

Muslim countries

• Middle East Fertility Society Journal
  • Review of assisted reproduction techniques, laws, and regulations in Muslim countries [2020]

Netherlands

• Human Fertility
  • Enable families with donor-conceived children to tailor their family story. Recommendations for policy and practice regarding legal age limits for accessing donor information in The Netherlands [2025]

• Journal of Medical Ethics
  • What constitutes a reasonable compensation for non-commercial oocyte donors: an analogy with living organ donation and medical research participation [2019]

New Zealand

• Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Publications and resources

• Human Fertility
  • Donor-linking provisions in New Zealand: counselling roles, concerns and needs [2024]

Nigeria

• African Journal of Reproductive Health
  • Regulating assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Nigeria: lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom [2020]

• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Parenthood: Is the law in Nigeria fit for assisted reproductive technology? [2018]

Norway

• Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Why are egg donors paid less than sperm donors? [2024]

Philippines

• Frontiers in Sociology
  • The need for assisted reproductive technology regulations: a case for women in the Philippines [2025]

Singapore

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Application of legal principles and medical ethics: multifetal pregnancy and fetal reduction [2014]

South Africa

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Building a Progressive Reproductive Law in South Africa [2023]

• National Department of Health South Africa
  • National Health Act: Regulations: Artificial fertilisation of persons [2012]

Sweden

• Anthropology & Medicine
  • Politics, law and a lack of sperm: single women and fertility treatment in the Swedish health system [2024]

• Human Reproduction
  • National survey of donor-conceived individuals who requested information about their sperm donor-experiences from 17 years of identity releases in Sweden [2022]

• Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
  • The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF [2019]

• Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Use of in vitro fertilization—ethical issues [2020]

Switzerland

• Fedlex
  • Federal Act on Medically Assisted Reproduction

• Reproductive BioMedicine Online
  • Legal framework and IVF outcomes: a comparative analysis of fresh and frozen embryo transfers in Switzerland [2025]

Taiwan

• PLoS ONE
  • Use of assisted reproductive technologies before and after the Artificial Reproduction Act in Taiwan [2018]

Turkey

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Opportunities for reproductive tourism: cost and quality advantages of Turkey in the provision of in-vitro Fertilization (IVF) services [2016]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Human fertilisation and embryology

• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
  • Code of Practice

• Human Fertility
  • Women, Wombs and Warnock: 40 years after the Warnock Report, is legislation fit for purpose for uterus transplantation? [2025]

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • 'The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology': novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales [2023]

• Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Is it acceptable to contact an anonymous egg donor to facilitate diagnostic genetic testing for the donor-conceived child? [2019]

• Legislation.gov.uk
  • The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 [2015]

• Medical Law Review
  • Donor conception, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, choices, and procedural justice: an argument for reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 [2024]
  • Artificial Womb Technology and the Choice to Gestate Ex Utero: Is Partial Ectogenesis the Business of the Criminal Law? [2020]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The use of expanded carrier screening in reproductive medicine [2024]

United Kingdom, United States

• EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer [2016]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction [2017]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • State insurance mandates for in vitro fertilization are not associated with improving racial and ethnic disparities in utilization and treatment outcomes [2023]
  • Embryo donation: national trends and outcomes, 2004-2019 [2023]
  • Kamakahi vs ASRM and the future of compensation for human eggs [2015]
  • Creating and Selling Embryos for “Donation”: Ethical Challenges [2014]

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Gamete and embryo donation guidance [2024]
  • Financial ''risk-sharing'' or refund programs in assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion [2024]
  • Ethical considerations for telemedical delivery of fertility care: an Ethics Committee opinion [2024]
  • Misconduct in third-party assisted reproductive technology by participants and nonmedical professionals or entities: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
  • Informed consent in assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
  • Defining embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
  • Updated terminology for gamete and embryo donors: directed (identified) to replace "known" and nonidentified to replace "anonymous": a committee opinion [2022]
  • Reproductive and infertility care in times of public health crises: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
  • Provision of fertility services for women at increased risk of complications during fertility treatment or pregnancy: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
  • Cross-border reproductive care: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
  • Moving innovation to practice: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Guidance regarding gamete and embryo donation [2021]
  • Guidance on the use of social media in reproductive medicine practice [2021]
  • Guidance for using text, email, and video communication in practices devoted to reproductive medicine [2021]
  • Financial compensation of oocyte donors: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Evidence-based outcomes after oocyte cryopreservation for donor oocyte in vitro fertilization and planned oocyte cryopreservation: a guideline [2021]
  • Ethical issues in oocyte banking for nonautologous use: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Disposition of unclaimed embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Disparities in access to effective treatment for infertility in the United States: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Access to fertility treatment irrespective of marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
  • Repetitive oocyte donation: a committee opinion [2020]
  • Ethics in embryo research: a position statement by the ASRM Ethics in Embryo Research Task Force and the ASRM Ethics Committee [2020]
  • Compassionate transfer: patient requests for embryo transfer for nonreproductive purposes [2020]
  • Interests, obligations, and rights in gamete and embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2019]
  • Fertility treatment when the prognosis is very poor or futile: an Ethics Committee opinion [2019]
  • Posthumous retrieval and use of gametes or embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
  • Informing offspring of their conception by gamete or embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
  • Ethical obligations in fertility treatment when intimate partners withhold information from each other: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine position statement on uterus transplantation: a committee opinion [2018]
  • Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services: an Ethics Committee opinion [2017]
  • Position on reproductive donors and smallpox vaccine: a committee opinion [2016]
  • Oocyte or embryo donation to women of advanced reproductive age: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
  • Disclosure of medical errors involving gametes and embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
  • Third-Party Reproduction
  • Oversight of IVF in the US
  • Oversight of Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Embryo Donation
  • Egg Donation

• BMC Women's Health
  • Informed consent and coercion in recruitment advertisements for oocyte donors [2024]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • National ART Surveillance System

• EMBO reports
  • In vitro fertilization and the ethics of frozen embryos [2024]

• Fertility and Sterility
  • Effect of state insurance mandates on racial/ethnic disparities in the utilization and outcomes of donor oocyte-assisted reproductive technologies [2023]
  • Racial and ethnic disparities among donor oocyte banks in the United States [2022]
  • Storage, transport, and disposition of gametes and embryos: legal issues and practical considerations [2021]
  • Business law issues for assisted reproductive technology practices and practitioners: considerations for sales or mergers of fertility practices [2021]

• Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
  • Revisiting selected ethical aspects of current clinical in vitro fertilization (IVF) practice [2022]
  • Liability for embryo mix-ups in fertility practices in the USA [2021]
  • Cryostorage failures: a medicolegal review [2019]
  • “One for Sorrow, Two for Joy?”: American embryo transfer guideline recommendations, practices, and outcomes for gestational surrogate patients [2017]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • In Vitro–Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology: Scientific, Ethical, and Regulatory Implications: Proceedings of a Workshop [2023]

• Reproductive Sciences
  • Inequities in Medically Assisted Reproduction: a Scoping Review [2023]

• Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Closing the gap on racial disparities-Increasing race and ethnicity demographics reporting in the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System Registry [2024]
  • Survey assessing policies regarding patient age and provision of fertility treatment in the United States [2023]
  • The impact of insurance mandates on donor oocyte utilization: an analysis of 39,338 donor oocyte cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology registry [2022]
  • Factors affecting live birth rates in donor oocytes from commercial egg banks vs. program egg donors: an analysis of 40,485 cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology registry in 2016-2018 [2022]
  • Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology advertising guidelines: How likely are member clinics to maintain compliance after resolving their violations? [2021]
  • Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology advertising guidelines: How are member clinics doing? [2021]

Western countries

• Reproductive Health
  • A systematic review of assisted and third-party reproduction guidelines regarding management and care of donors [2024]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Current practices and controversies in assisted reproduction [2002]
  • Policies and legislation on Assisted Reproductive Technology

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  • Preimplantation diagnosis
  • Fertility preservation
  • Ethics, jurisprudence: sexual and reproductive health and rights
  • Ethics, jurisprudence: gestational carriers, surrogacy
  • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
  • Cloning, stem cells
  • Assisted reproductive technology