Law No. 68, 12 June 1987
Annual Review of Population Law 14: 57-59
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12346766 Document Number: 381241
This document reprints Norway's 1987 law setting forth provisions on artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization. The law requires that institutions be specially approved before carrying out artificial insemination or freezing sperm or unfertilized ova. It is prohibited to freeze fertilized ova or to carry out artificial fertilization in unmarried women. The written consent of both the woman and her husband is required before artificial fertilization may be carried out. Artificial insemination may be carried out only if the husband is sterile or the carrier of a serious hereditary disease. In such cases, the attending physician will select a suitable semen donor whose identity will be kept secret. The semen donor will not be given any information about the identity of the recipient family. In vitro fertilization can only occur in cases when a woman is sterile and must only use the gametes of the couple themselves. The fertilized egg may only be implanted in the originating woman. Semen donors who are not married to the women have no legal relationship to the child. The woman's husband will be deemed the father if he gave his consent to the insemination.