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IVF in Costa Rica
For 16 years, Costa Rica was the only country in the world that banned IVF, after it had been successfully conducted from 1995 to 2000. It also has been the only country that banned IVF based on the argument that it protects the embryo. After years of conflict, the prohibition has finally been lifte...
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Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5714607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985042 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20170060 |
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author | Valerio, Carlos Vargas, Karen Raventós, Henriette |
author_facet | Valerio, Carlos Vargas, Karen Raventós, Henriette |
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description | For 16 years, Costa Rica was the only country in the world that banned IVF, after it had been successfully conducted from 1995 to 2000. It also has been the only country that banned IVF based on the argument that it protects the embryo. After years of conflict, the prohibition has finally been lifted and the first baby girl was born in March 2017. This paper recounts the judicial and legal struggles Costa Rica faced in order to reestablished its IVF program. |
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spelling | pubmed-57146072017-12-05 IVF in Costa Rica Valerio, Carlos Vargas, Karen Raventós, Henriette JBRA Assist Reprod Update Article For 16 years, Costa Rica was the only country in the world that banned IVF, after it had been successfully conducted from 1995 to 2000. It also has been the only country that banned IVF based on the argument that it protects the embryo. After years of conflict, the prohibition has finally been lifted and the first baby girl was born in March 2017. This paper recounts the judicial and legal struggles Costa Rica faced in order to reestablished its IVF program. Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5714607/ /pubmed/28985042 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20170060 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Update Article Valerio, Carlos Vargas, Karen Raventós, Henriette IVF in Costa Rica |
title | IVF in Costa Rica |
title_full | IVF in Costa Rica |
title_fullStr | IVF in Costa Rica |
title_full_unstemmed | IVF in Costa Rica |
title_short | IVF in Costa Rica |
title_sort | ivf in costa rica |
topic | Update Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5714607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985042 http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1518-0557.20170060 |
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