Limiting donor conceptions to six

Abstract

"In terms of the Regulations Relating to the Artificial Fertilisation of Persons (R.175) of the National Health Act,[1] when gametes are removed or withdrawn from the body of a gamete donor, this is done for the purpose of artificial fertilisation. In the Regulations, artificial fertilisation is defined as ‘... the introduction by other than natural means of a male gamete or gametes into the internal reproductive organs of a female person for the purpose of human reproduction ...’. All information regarding the donated gametes is to be stored in an electronic central databank. No further gametes can be removed or withdrawn from the body of a donor once six children have been conceived through artificial fertilisation using the gametes of that donor."