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The World Health Organization (WHO) is about to announce its controversial move to classify single men and women without sexual partners as “infertile” and disabled. According to the authors of the new global standards, the new definition will give every individual the right to reproduce.
From the World Health Organization’s clinical definition, Infertility is “a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.”
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The new standard suggests that “infertility” is more than just a medical condition. One of the authors of the new standards, WHO’s Dr. David Adamson says, “The definition of infertility is now written in such a way that it includes the rights of all individuals to have a family, and that includes single men, single women, gay men, gay women.” He also shared that “It says an individual’s got a right to reproduce whether or not they have a partner. All the countries that belong to the UN in a sense they’ve signed on to it. Countries are bound by it. It has legal standing.”
But the critics have something to say about this new law.
“I’m in general a supporter of IVF. But I’ve never regarded infertility as a disability or a disease but rather a medical matter.” says Gareth Johnson MP, former chair of the All Parliamentary Group on Infertility, whose children were born through fertility treatment.
Josephine Quintavalle, from Comment On Reproductive Ethics added: “This absurd nonsense is not simply re-defining infertility but completely side-lining the biological process and significance of natural intercourse between a man and a woman.”
This new classification will benefit all the heterosexual single men and women, as well as gay men and women who are seeking In vitro fertilization (IVF)—a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility or genetic problems and assist with the conception of a child—to receive the same priority as couples. This could also give them a chance to have access to public funds. For countries with public funding for IVF procedures, this move will have a great impact.
Legal experts said the new definition, which will be sent out to every health minister next year, may force a change in the law.
