Hey, I wondered if you could tell me more about the situation in Australia? IIRC, there are no Australian IVF clinics offering PGT-P, and recommendations against it from medical professionals, but no explicit ban on using an overseas company to obtain this data and then implanting the chosen embryo? (Although I believe choosing the sex of the embryo is banned outright.) Have I misunderstood something about that? Would it be possible in practice, or would you expect that no clinic would allow testing or allow the couple to choose their own embryo? Would it be illegal to obtain genetic data given that it would give information about the embryo’s sex (even if that was not used to make the decision)? How do the advances with PGT-A play into this?
No worries if you don’t know the answers to these yet! It will be several years before my partner and I are looking to have a child, and the technology and regulation could well change dramatically before then—I’m just considering the possibility of egg/sperm freezing, and whether it would be necessary to plan to go overseas for the process.
Sorry for so many questions, and thanks for the great post!
Hey, I wondered if you could tell me more about the situation in Australia? IIRC, there are no Australian IVF clinics offering PGT-P, and recommendations against it from medical professionals, but no explicit ban on using an overseas company to obtain this data and then implanting the chosen embryo? (Although I believe choosing the sex of the embryo is banned outright.) Have I misunderstood something about that? Would it be possible in practice, or would you expect that no clinic would allow testing or allow the couple to choose their own embryo? Would it be illegal to obtain genetic data given that it would give information about the embryo’s sex (even if that was not used to make the decision)? How do the advances with PGT-A play into this?
No worries if you don’t know the answers to these yet! It will be several years before my partner and I are looking to have a child, and the technology and regulation could well change dramatically before then—I’m just considering the possibility of egg/sperm freezing, and whether it would be necessary to plan to go overseas for the process.
Sorry for so many questions, and thanks for the great post!