Nearly 200 In-Vitro Babies Born in Costa Rica since 2017

Some 200 babies have been born in Costa Rica since the country reactivated the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) technique in 2017, after a 17-year ban, attorney Hubert May announced here today.

May, who represented a group of couples and women in the lawsuit against the Costa Rican state at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said that between March and May 2017 two private clinics in the country began to perform IVF technique and thanks to the assisted pregnancy it is estimated that about 200 babies have been born since then.

May’s statements to the informative crhoy.com are about the recent announcement by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) that it will open the High Complexity Reproductive Medicine Unit (Umrac) in June, in a new building that was built in the Women’s Hospital in this capital.

The lawyer said he was very happy with the entry of the CCSS to help these couples and infertile people so they can have children.

We see it as the culmination of an entire process,’ asserted May, referring to the process she brought before the IACHR, which in 2017 proved the plaintiffs right and forced the state to reactivate the IVF technique.

(Taken from PL)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire