Madrid (AFP) – “Making parents out of our patients,” reads an ad in Madrid's metro for one of Spain's many fertility clinics that have opened their doors to husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women thanks to lenient laws. Sitting in his office behind the reception, where black-and white photos of babies' hands hang on the wall, director Juan Antonio Garcia Velasco says that Spain has become a “reference point” for fertility treatment. A law that came into force in 2006 allows women aged 18 or over — be they single, in heterosexual or same-sex couples — to access assisted reproductive technology such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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Spain, the eldorado of fertility treatment
