Senate : Medically Assisted Reproduction Bill Tabled

Just a few hours after adoption by Members of the National Assembly, the President of the Lower House of Parliament forwarded the bill relating to Medically Assisted Reproduction in Cameroon to the Senate. The bill was therefore communicated yesterday evening during the plenary sitting of the Senate presided at by the Senior Vice President of the House, Senator Aboubakary Abdoulaye.
Following the programme of work signed by the Secretary General of the Senate, the bill relating to Medically Assisted Reproduction in Cameroon will be scrutinised in the Committee on Cultural, Social and Family Affairs, today, June 30, 2022 as from 10: 00 a.m. It will be defended by the Minister of Public Health. At 3:00 pm the same day, the bill will be studied and adopted during the plenary sitting of the House.
Medically assisted reproduction has been practised in Cameroon for many years and has gained some magnitude with the Hospital Centre for Endoscopic Surgery and Human Reproduction Research and Application (CHRACERH), established by Presidential decree No. 2011/336 of 13 October 2011. The practice has however, been carried out without a legal framework.  The bill contains the legal framework which seeks to provide a legal response to the strong desire for parenthood from married or unmarried couples, as well as a normative framework in terms of rules and procedures to be observed by sector practitioners. In this regard, the bill allows persons seeking Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) to realise their parenth...