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Costa Rica government says it will reinstate in vitro fertilization within 6 months

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The administration of Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís says it will comply in the coming months with an international court order to reinstate women’s right to in vitro fertilization.

The commitment came Wednesday in response to the Costa Rican legislature’s failure to pass a bill regulating the fertility procedure. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ordered the government to reinstate women’s right to undergo IVF in Costa Rica in 2012.

Representatives of the 27 couples who filed the initial complaint before the San José-based international court met with Solís on Wednesday and handed him a draft presidential decree for regulating IVF, which is currently banned.

Following the meeting, the Solís administration confirmed its intent to bypass the legislature and establish regulations for the fertility procedure, but Presidency Minister Sergio Alfaro Salas declined to give details or an exact timeline for complying with the Inter-American Court’s 2012 ruling.





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