Sweeping changes to fertility regulation in the UAE – which have relaxed laws around IVF and egg freezing for non-Muslim, unmarried couples and lifted a ban on surrogacy – have been welcomed by experts, who say couples now have more options than ever to conceive or have a child.
In a significant legal development, unmarried non-Muslim couples in the UAE are now permitted to undergo in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, following a recent revision to the law, provided the relevant eggs and sperm are taken from the couple concerned.
New surrogacy laws
Updates to the country’s fertility legislation also remove a previous clause that criminalized the involvement of a third-party woman in carrying a couple’s child – paving the way for couples to explore….
