Easing restrictions: Swiss Federal Council announces a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act

February 10, 2025 | Progress Educational Trust

Switzerland will change its current regulations on reproductive medicine to allow egg donation and to expand access to gamete donation to unmarried couples, with certain conditions. Regulation will continue bans on embryo donation and surrogacy. 

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Switzerland’s Marriage Equality Law Widens to Allow Access to IVF

James Moore | BioNews | November 22, 2021

Starting in July 2022, same-sex couples in Switzerland will be able to marry and access the same assisted reproduction, adoption, and fertility services as heterosexual couples. Surrogacy and egg donation remain illegal, so families desiring these services would only have access by  traveling abroad.

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Survey Shows Surprising Number of Surrogate Births

Swiss Info | June 28, 2020

In Switzerland, where surrogacy is banned, more couples are turning to international commercial surrogacy. In the past year, the number of children born to surrogates abroad doubled, most born in the United States, followed by Ukraine and Canada.

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