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Earlier this month Argentina joined the list of countries that subsidize in vitro fertilization (IVF) for its citizens. Overwhelmingly passed by the Chamber of Deputies and previously approved by the Senate, IVF is now available to heterosexual couples, single women, and gay couples, whose unions are legal thanks to the passage of the first gay marriage law in Latin America in 2010. President Cristina Kirchner summarized this development as “more rights, more inclusion, better country.”
The law’s basic tenet is that every adult, regardless of marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, or economic situation, has a right to reproduce. Now Argentina, like the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Israel, and the province of Quebec, is committed to providing IVF as a matter of universal health care and services.
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The way to protect oocyte in the time of chemotherapy was succeed be scientists from Israel. Doctors from Sheba Medical Center identified molecular mechanism which causes irreversible changes in oocytes under the impact of chemotherapeutical drugs. It was found that specific molecule AS101 which don’t allow to this molecule mechanism being activated. Thereby AS101 prevents the development of irreversible changes in oocyte, their damage and approaching of infertility.

During the clinical trials drug produced on the base of AS101 was assign to women who were taking chemotherapy. Trials were carried out by Professor Dror Meir from Sheba Medical Center and Professor Benyamin Sherdeny from Bar Ilan University. Trials saw a high effectively rate of the drug and results of these trials were published in Science Translational Medicine.

Assume that after success of clinical trials of drug with AS 101 will be actively using in medical practice.

Government of the Great Britain announced information about preparing draft law according to which using of gens of 3 persons during artificial fertilization is allowed.

Assume that this law will be prepared up to the end of this year. If this law will be enacted, so the Great Britain will be the first country, which legalized the possibility of using gens of 3 persons during IVF. The aim of this law is to save children from serious genetic diseases.

But not looking on pluses of this law there are many medical and esthetical aspects. Last year in Great Britain was carried out number of public consultations connected with reproductive technologies at all. About 63% of asked have answered that don’t deprecate against the law because its rules are turn to protect children’s health.