Sweden could legalize IVF for single mothers

Published: 16 May 2014 12:37 GMT+02:00 Updated: 16 May 2014 12:37 GMT+02:00

Single women in Sweden should no longer need to travel abroad for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a new inquiry has proposed. If applied, single women would have the same reproductive rights as women in a relationship.

The proposal, based on a government-funded study, was handed over to the government on Friday

"We need changes to the law and we propose to make it possible," investigator Eva Wendel Rosberg told the TT news agency.

Today, single women in Sweden have no choice but to travel abroad if they want IVF treatment. Married women and those in long-term partnerships, meanwhile, have full access to IVF treatment at home. The differential treatment is based on a perception that a child has the right to two parents.

"This would, in a way, take a step away from that. I think the winds are changing though, people have different opinions about assisted fertilization today compared to ten years ago," Wendel Rosberg added.

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