According to current law in Switzerland, donated sperm cells may only be used by heterosexual married couples. Single persons and lesbian couples are excluded from sperm donation (Art. 3 Abs. 3 of the Reproductive Medicine Act, RMA). Egg donation and surrogacy are prohibited under current Swiss law (Art. 119 Abs. 2 lit. d of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation; Art. 4 RMA ).<\/p>\n
However, the desire to have a child and start a family is a legitimate aim and a legitimate right of all people, regardless of their sexual orientation and marital status. Pluralisation of lifestyles, globalisation of society and progress in reproductive medicine therefore call for new concepts and a change in family law.<\/p>\n
The National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NCE) also demands the adaptation of child law and no longer considers the normative effect of nature (every child has a father and a mother) to be irreversible. In a pluralistic society, diversity and different opinions should be possible. The state should interfere as little as possible in the private life of the individual.<\/p>\n
Factsheet Reproductive medicine in Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n Opinion of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NCE) of November 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to current law in Switzerland, donated sperm cells may only be used by heterosexual married couples. Single persons and lesbian couples are excluded from sperm donation (Art. 3 Abs. 3 of the Reproductive Medicine Act, RMA). Egg donation and surrogacy are prohibited under current Swiss law (Art. 119 Abs. 2 lit. d of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publications_category":[69],"class_list":["post-1548","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","publications_category-reproductive-medicine-and-surrogacy","p841"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/1548\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publications_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schaubhochl.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications_category?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}