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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

Overhaul UK fertility law to keep up with advancements, expert says

IVF in laboratory
The average rate of multiple births for all women undergoing IVF has fallen from 28% in 1991 to just 6% in 2019. Photograph: Andriy Bezuglov/Alamy

A leading fertility expert has said the law should be overhauled so that rapid advancements in reproductive science do not stall.

Prof Tim Child of the University of Oxford said IVF in the UK was “the most successful and the safest that it has ever been”, and noted that the chance of having a baby from a single embryo was rising and the likelihood of having multiple births dropping.

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