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France seeks to meet record number of requests for assisted reproduction

IVF procedures underway at the Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon fertility clinic in Paris, France, on 25 October 2022. © JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP

France's health ministry has announced new measures to meet the ever-increasing demand for sperm and the freezing of eggs, two years after France extended the right to medically assisted reproduction to all women.

During a visit to a fertility clinic in the northern French town of Amiens on Wednesday, France’s deputy minister responsible for health professionals, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, announced the creation of more centres authorised to receive and store donations of eggs or sperm to cope with growing demand.

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