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New Delhi: The Union health ministrys move to seek details from the Punjab government over reports that the late singer Sidhu Moosewalas mother gave birth to a baby boy through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) at the age of 58 has put the spotlight on the Artificial Reproductive Technique (ART) Regulation Act, 2021...
This law fixes the upper age limits for women and men to undergo ART treatment at 50 and 55 years respectively...
In its letter, the ministry asked the state government to submit a report of action taken as per the ART Regulation Act, 2021..
ART is the first law that regulates the age till when a couple can have a child through artificial methods out of health concerns for the woman.. The act includes all techniques that seek to induce a pregnancy by maturing the sperm or the oocyte (immature egg cell) outside the human body and transferring the gamete or the embryo into the reproductive system of a woman.. These include gamete donation (sperm or egg), IVF, and gestational surrogacy provided through designated clinics that offer ART-related treatments and ART banks, which collect, screen and store gametes...
She told ThePrint that women should not push the age limit for IVF, adding that any pregnancy at above 35 years of age is high-risk.. Mumbai-based IVF specialist Dr Aniruddha Malpani said the instances of elderly couples opting for IVF has gone down following the ART Act, but there could be some centres offering it surreptitiously...
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