Mysterious Fate Of Frozen Eggs, Sperm Of Algerians After Death

Specialists in obstetrics and medical assistance for reproduction said that the new health draft law does not end the confusion over some complex and ambiguous issues that are related to artificial insemination, which opens the door for a lot of legitimate and legal interpretations, in light of the Health Ministry’s neglect for the opinion and advice of the imams to prepare a draft Law.

In this regard, the Head of Gynecological and Obstetrics services at the hospital of Nafissa Hamoud “Parnet”, Mokrane Madjtouh, told Echorouk: “New draft law that will be presented for discussion soon on the parliament, did not address the sensitive topics in relation to artificial insemination”.

“It did not talk about the fate of women’s frozen eggs and embryos, so do we hold them for one year or 20 years? Especially as the Algerians accept and firmly the IVF recently, because of the high rate of infertility in the community, and this process requires taking a number of eggs of a married woman to be vaccinated in the laboratory, and transform them to one fertilized egg to the womb, while the rest of them are placed in the eggs bank”.

On the other hand, Chairman of Medicine Center for Reproductive “Ferial” and a specialist in obstetrics, gynecology and infertility, Dr. Charif Nadir, said: “New draft law, did not bring new ideas about the artificial insemination, and the article 388 emphasized the need for vaccination for a couple who are linked religiously, and suffer infertility that is confirmed medically, with the use of sperm and eggs of the couple only, and these actions are taken in private clinics that are specializing in medical assistance for reproduction since its inception, but this is not new. Health Ministry does not focus on the more important things, such as the fate of the frozen eggs and sperm”.

Previously, Dr. Nadir put a problematic that relates to the opinion of fatwas on these issues in particular with respect to freezing eggs of single women who suffer cancer and who went in menopause, because the process on linked to virginity, and another problem that is related to the possibility of the exploitation of women for the sperm of their deceased husbands for a pregnancy, which are considered legal gaps and ambiguities in the IVF operations.