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Healthcare providers in Lithuania stopped offering assisted reproduction treatment to new patients after a new law took effect in January as they have to renew their licenses, the director of the State Health Care Accreditation Agency said on Thursday.
The Lithuanian parliament passed on Tuesday amendments, initiated by the Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), to the new Law on Assisted Reproduction, putting into place the requirement to indefinitely store unused embryo and allowing embryo donation.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that won the recent parliamentary elections, says that he will withdraw an amendment aimed at banning embryo freezing.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has not changed her position regarding the Law on Assisted Reproduction, her advisor on economic and social policy issues said on Tuesday morning.
Amendments to Lithuania's new Law on Assisted Reproduction, which has not yet come into force, are submitted to the parliament on Tuesday with the aim of returning to a conservative version of the bill that limited the number of embryos created during in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis believes that Lithuania should keep in place the current Law on Assisted Reproduction that does not limit the number of embryos that can be created a time and allows freezing them.
