Februar 2009 

Dear friends 

The Norwegian Society for Assisted Reproduction, NOFAB, with representatives from all the eleven Norwegian clinics, is embarking on a project to produce a common digitalised case sheet and laboratory report to simplify documentation and reporting of results after assisted reproduction to the Health Authorities and also provide possibilities for scientific research.

Norway is now facing the effects of the latest revision of the Norwegian law, which in fact was the first National law in the world, and the strictest law in the Scandinavian countries.

These latest changes include:

*Legislation of preimplantation diagnostics for specified indications.

*The use of embryos for training and research, after the consent from the persons of origin.

*The right for homosexual female couples to go through assisted reproduction with the use of non-anonymous donor semen.

Assisted reproduction for single women and egg donation is still forbidden in Norway. People who are conceived by the use of sperm from donors have a legal possibility to find out the name and address of the donor at the age of eighteen.  

Best wishes, Karin Hallman