{"id":5568,"date":"2014-06-26T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kinderwunschzentrum-hamburg.de\/what-is-permitted-by-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:02:57","slug":"what-is-permitted-by-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kinderwunschzentrum-hamburg.de\/en\/your-wish-to-have-children\/wissenswertes\/financial-and-legal\/what-is-permitted-by-law\/","title":{"rendered":"What is permitted by law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In Germany, the Embryo Protection Act (ESchG) regulates what is permissible in the context of reproductive medicine \u2013 in order to ensure the conscientious handling of the creation of human life and to prevent abuse. For you as a couple wishing to have a child, this also affords peace of mind.<br \/> <\/h2>\n<h2>Under the Embryo Protection Act, the following are permitted:<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Performance of In-Vitro Fertilisation and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection by doctors specially trained in reproductive medicine.<br \/>\u2022 Transfer of up to three fertilised eggs or embryos into the uterus during a treatment cycle.<br \/>\u2022 Transfer of a partner\u2019s sperm (insemination).<br \/>\u2022 Transfer of donor sperm under special conditions.<br \/>\u2022 Freezing egg cells in the pronuclear stage (cryopreservation).<\/p>\n<h2>Under the Embryo Protection Act, the following are not permitted:<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Using more than three eggs.<br \/>\u2022 Using donor egg cells.<br \/>\u2022 Surrogacy.<br \/>\u2022 Using semen from somebody who is deceased.<br \/>\u2022 The misuse of human embryos e.g. for experiments.<\/p>\n<h3><em>The full text of the Embryo Protection Act is accessible <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span>. <\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany, the Embryo Protection Act (ESchG) regulates what is permissible in the context of reproductive medicine \u2013 in order to ensure the conscientious handling of the creation of human life and to prevent abuse. 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