The Labour Party women's section has appealed to the government to change the IVF laws to reflect and address "realities" which until now have been ignored.

In a statement this morning, Nisa Laburisti said the percentage of deliveries in Malta in 2015 stood at 18.9 per cent, in stark comparison to the EU average of 30 per cent.

Among the recommendations submitted by Nisa Laburisti were the need for embryo freezing together with the availability of anonymous egg and sperm donation, ‎including the possibility of exchange with foreign banks.

Last year Nisa Laburisti was among a number of stakeholders who had submitted  recommendations to the inter-ministerial committee.

Last November, a Church-commissioned study had concluded that the prevailing scientific data and the results obtained from local IVF treatment to date demonstrate that the introduction of embryo freezing in Malta is scientifically unnecessary and unreasonable.

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