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| − | |Key laws and policies=* REPRODUCCION MEDICAMENTE ASISTIDA Ley 26.862 Acceso integral a los procedimientos y técnicas médico-asistenciales de reproducción médicamente asistida. Sancionada: Junio 5 de 2013 (Medically Assisted Reproduction Law 26.862 comprehensive access to medical care procedures and techniques of medically assisted reproduction Enacted: June 5, 2013. The law provides citizens (without limitations on marriage or sexual orientation) with coverage for simple and complex fertilization techniques (including for example, with or without a donation of gametes or embryos.) | + | |Key laws and policies=* REPRODUCCION MEDICAMENTE ASISTIDA Ley 26.862 Acceso integral a los procedimientos y técnicas médico-asistenciales de reproducción médicamente asistida. Sancionada: Junio 5 de 2013 (Medically Assisted Reproduction Law 26.862 comprehensive access to medical care procedures and techniques of medically assisted reproduction Enacted: June 5, 2013.) |
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| + | The law provides citizens (without limitations on marriage or sexual orientation) with coverage for simple and complex fertilization techniques (including for example, with or without a donation of gametes or embryos.) | ||
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| + | See also MEDICALLY ASSISTED REPRODUCTION 956/2013 Decree Law No. 26,862. Access to comprehensive health-care procedures and techniques of medically assisted reproduction. Rules. (Regulations) | ||
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* The Prohibition on Human Cloning Research states that "it is the indelegable function of the government to defend the human dignity of all human beings, preserve their health and protect their quality of life. In addition, the government recognizes that scientific advances in cloning technology create ethical problems that opposes their own cultural values making it necessary to regulate all cloning experiments in relation to human beings." | * The Prohibition on Human Cloning Research states that "it is the indelegable function of the government to defend the human dignity of all human beings, preserve their health and protect their quality of life. In addition, the government recognizes that scientific advances in cloning technology create ethical problems that opposes their own cultural values making it necessary to regulate all cloning experiments in relation to human beings." | ||
|Prohibited practices=The Prohibition on Human Cloning Research prohibits both reproductive and research cloning. | |Prohibited practices=The Prohibition on Human Cloning Research prohibits both reproductive and research cloning. | ||
| − | |Permitted and regulated practices= | + | |Permitted and regulated practices=In 2013, the first recognition by a Court of a surrogacy arrangement occurred. It declared a couple parenting a child born as a result of an altruistic surrogacy arrangement, to be the legal parents of that child, pursuant to Article 16 of Argentina's Constitution and the Children's Rights Convention. The couple's own eggs and sperm were used, and the surrogate was a friend. |
| − | + | Surrogacy, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and providing eggs are covered by ethical guidelines. | |
Argentina also recently adopted new ethical guidelines that now permit embryo experimentation on non-viable embryos with stringent experimental protocols required. | Argentina also recently adopted new ethical guidelines that now permit embryo experimentation on non-viable embryos with stringent experimental protocols required. | ||
