Article 97: The Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction shall be chaired by the National Commissioner for Bioethics and shall consist of six other members who recognize their knowledge and experience in bioethics and assisted procreation and shall be composed of a representative of the following persons: Article 34.- Approved centres, prior to the application of assisted procreation techniques, are required to provide applicants with sufficient, clear, timely and truthful information on the medical, genetic, psychological, bioethical and legal aspects of the chosen technique, on the favourable outcome and on the risks to physical and mental health that may arise for applicants and for the person born; and even with regard to the conditions in which the latter might find themselves. “One of the big problems of countries like Mexico©, which lack regulation, is that they become parsons of medical tourism©, but since there is no surveillance, the potential for abuse, risk and fraud is great,” says Josã© Antonio Alonso, genomics and biotics specialist at UNAM.© Alonso points out that it is likely that a Jordanian couple (as in the latter case) traveled to the other side of the world for economic reasons in order to undergo experimental treatments, because these procedures are much cheaper in Mexico©and because they are desperate not to find legal alternatives in their home country. Â XIII. authorization for the establishment and operation of federally regulated banks, prior technical, scientific and legal advice; Article 33: The application of assisted reproduction techniques may only be carried out by medical and medical personnel certified in accordance with the legislation applicable to their professional practice. Section four. Within one hundred and twenty days after the entry into force of this Law, all establishments providing services and providing authorized assisted reproduction units shall notify the health authorities of the total number of human embryos (fertilized ova) they hold cryopreserved from reproductive techniques initiated before the entry into force of this Law. as well as available information on their condition and the conditions under which they have been cryopreserved. IV. In the event of the death of the husband, it may not be used for the assisted fertilization of his wife or surviving concubine before a notary without prior express consent to that effect. VII. promote research in the field of assisted procreation; Article 25.- Assisted procreation techniques may only be performed in approved centres with a licence issued for this purpose by the Health Authority. I. make all facilities available to the competent health authorities during inspection visits to verify compliance with technical, sanitary and legal requirements; In Europe since the 80s, this social aspiration was concretized very early on by the adoption of various laws on assisted reproduction.
The Spanish, English and French laws were among the first to be adopted as part of the relevant legislation at European level. Article 28.- Assisted procreation techniques are accessible to a man or woman who has applied for them at an approved centre within the meaning of this Act, its regulations and any other applicable legislation, provided that at the time of fertilization: VI. promote appropriate coordination between federal, state and local authorities and public health institutions in the field of assisted human reproduction; XV. Heterologous fertilization: Assisted fertilization with germ cells from an applicant and an unknown donor. I. guarantee the right of men and women to assisted reproduction in accordance with the provisions of this Act; The right to protection of health enjoyed by all Mexicans in accordance with article 4, paragraph 4, of our supreme legal system, which, in turn, under article 73, section XVI, of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, authorizes the enactment of laws on general health in the Republic. Similarly, all assisted reproduction techniques that can be practiced today are analyzed and regulated, new techniques resulting from scientific advances were not explicitly absent in previous regulations, especially in the General Health Law. XVII. sign cooperation agreements with all types of public bodies and private institutions specializing in assisted reproduction; and Article 27.- Before starting to apply any of the assisted reproduction techniques, the authorized centre must verify before the national registry that the applicants do not have cryopreserved gametes in another bank. If their existence is proven and no obstacle to their elimination is provided for by this law, a new treatment may not be initiated.
Article 46: Any person may have access to all assisted procreation techniques regulated by this Act, provided that he or she is over eighteen years of age, has given his or her express written consent in a clear, free and conscious manner and cannot reproduce after one year for biological reasons. The announcement of the birth of the first baby© using the technique©of three genetic©parents in Mexico©surprised the world. If this experiment is verified, the new technology can help thousands of people who cannot reproduce in the traditional way. But the push was ± accompanied by doubts and criticism, fueled by the secrecy of the investigators behind the trial. The journals Science and Nature reported that the researchers behind this step circumvented U.S. legislation and applied the treatment south of the border because the laws are more lax. They deny it. Beyond that, there is an underlying regulatory framework, dating back to President Miguel de la Madrid`s six-year term (1982-1988), in which most attempts at reform take a restrictive approach, according to experts. “The state turned a blind eye for ± years, now this issue is blowing up in its face,” says Regina Tamãs©, director of the Chosen Reproduction Information Group (GIRE). In addition to the discussions that take place in scientific, philosophical, ethical or religious questions about the limits that assisted reproduction techniques may have, especially when it comes to the manipulation of embryos or the moral status that we owe as a society to the fruit of the union between human spermatozoa and oocytes, even in societies with more progressive legislation, the need to establish and enshrine legal limits for the handling of human embryos.
The advent of assisted reproduction techniques in the late 70s gave hope to infertile couples and with the birth of the first in vitro baby in 1978, new possibilities to solve the problem of infertility and sterility opened up to a large number of people suffering from the different pathologies that cause them. XXIII. Recipient: a man or woman who receives his or her own germ cells or other germ cells or embryos in order to undergo an assisted reproduction technique; Article 66: In all cases, germ cell research shall be carried out under the strictest hygienic control of the Secretariat. This information shall be transmitted to the same secretariat in order to keep the relevant register up to date and only germ cells which have never been used for assisted reproduction techniques shall be used.
