In Vitro Fertilisation
(asked on 13th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to monitor the progress of children conceived through the fertilisation of frozen oocytes for (a) epigenetic and (b) deleterious effects.
This question was answered on 23rd October 2017
The Government has no plans to introduce routine health follow-up of children born as a result of the use of frozen oocytes in fertility treatment.
To date, there has not been any evidence that pregnancies resulting from assisted reproduction technologies are less safe than natural pregnancies or that there are any adverse health effects for children conceived through assisted reproduction.