Ex Partner Consent No Longer Required for IVF

Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment (Consent) Bill 2019

2019-08-27: Passed and signed off by the state Governor (Assented); It will now be law.

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This Bill was sponsored by Martin Foley ( ALP )

This Bill was sponsored by Jenny Mikakos ( ALP )


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Effects of Bill:

This bill being passed means that:

A woman who is separated from her spouse can seek and access IVF using sperm donation without needing her estranged partner\'s consent to do so. The law is now written to be the same for broken same-sex and straight marriages.


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