Poland's lawmakers have approved a government bill that provides coherent regulations for in vitro fertilization and guarantees the procedure also to unwed couples.
The vote today was a big step toward giving IVF a solid and comprehensive legal framework. It still needs approval from the Senate and the president, who are expected to back it.
Under the bill, married and unwed couples will be eligible for IVF after other treatments give no results for 12 months.
A couple can have up to six eggs fertilized. Those unused can be offered for use by other women after 20 years, but cannot be destroyed.
Poland already allows IVF in licensed clinics, but lacks coherent legal and logistical regulations. In a recent blunder, a woman was implanted with the wrong egg.
