The economic crisis in Spain favours the adoption of frozen embryos.

Any adult woman in full health may adopt these embryos, including couples and women on the waiting list for adoption of children, couples with children, women without male partners who want a child and couples with fertility problems.

The economic crisis in Spain favours the adoption of frozen embryos.

The economic crisis in Spain caused a surge in adoptions of frozen embryos last 18 months between Spanish couples with fertility problems because of the lower cost of 'in vitro' fertilization, as explained by the Instituto Marques de Barcelona.

The centre has a pioneering program at the international level, which is currently the world's largest, to disposing of the huge number of frozen embryos accumulated year after year, taking into account that 40 percent of couples do not stipulate precisely what they want done with them.

The Spanish Law on Assisted Reproduction requires couples to express whether to keep their embryos for their own use, for donation to other couples, assigned to the scientific investigation or have them destroyed. However, a high number of cases, couples do not respond to the letter sent to them the centre.

Facing this situation, the centre began offering, since 2004, all embryos from healthy parents and adults, under 35, the option to enter the Embryo Adoption Program, of which 468 babies have been born since September 2005.

They are embryos from patients who have successfully completed an in vitro fertilization treatment and no longer want to have more children. "In many cases, couples have completed treatment with donor eggs, sperm or both gametes," says the head of the Institut Marquès in assisted reproduction, Marisa López-Teijón , the promoter of the initiative. "In this way, and although Spanish law provides all possible options in order to decide, we have available hundreds of embryos that are accumulated in the center," added Lopez-Teijón.

Many of them are foreign couples who come to Spain after repeated failures in 'In vitro' fertilization in their respective countries, ethnic criterion being the only one that prevails in the allocation of an embryo. The embryos are transferred to the uterus, on an outpatient basis, couples always originate from other regions or countries, to avoid the risk of overlapping siblings.

In fact, the last 500 embryos were allocated to patients from 24 different countries: Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Holland, Ireland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Mexico, USA. UU., Australia, Algeria, Argentina, Guatemala, Canada, Singapore, Russia, Albania and Morocco.






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