Romania Bans Paid In-Vitro Fertilization, Artificial Insemination Procedures

The order, published in the Official Journal of Romania on September 29, cancels an article of the law regulating transplant procedures, whereby state-run hospitals and private clinics were allowed to perform paid in-vitro fertilization and artificial insemination.

People close to the matter said the order was issued following the egg trafficking scandal over the past few months involving Romanian fertility clinic Sabyc.

Doctors deemed the order absurd, stressing there is no other alternative for couples that cannot have children.

Failure to observe the new rules will be punished with three to ten years imprisonment.

The management of the National Transplant Agency said it learned about the ministry's new order from a jurist and stressed that specialists do not even know about the order.

In turn, the ministry asked the agency to voice its standpoint regarding further amendments to the law banning paid in-vitro fertilization and artificial insemination, to avoid imposing restrictions on medical procedures.

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