Since 10 November, women without a partner, lesbians and transsexuals who retain the ability to gestate can already have access to assisted human reproduction on an equal footing in any autonomous community and without any objection their status as mutualists, whether public or concerted.

This is what the new Order SND/1215/2021 of 5 November, which is to replace the one which until now had to be met by MUFACE - the SSI/2065/2014, of 31 October - whose criteria were aimed at applying such techniques for therapeutic purposes to people with fertility disorders or treatments in special situations, or for preventive purposes to prevent the transmission of serious diseases. The mandatory application of the standard determined that some collectives did not have access to assisted human reproduction techniques, as is the case for unmarried women or lesbians, or transsexual persons who retain the ability to gestate.

Civil and scientific society has been actively demanding the extension of this right, so that in some cases the autonomous communities that have wanted to alleviate the repercussions of this exclusion had been facilitating the aforementioned techniques to these groups as a complementary benefit. However, MUFACE remained linked to the general regulations of the Ministry of Health, i.e. to the basic and general criteria of the NHS portfolio of services.

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