「生殖医療で公的機関を」　精子提供者情報管理など―日産婦提案

　日本産科婦人科学会は１７日、体外受精などの生殖補助医療について、精子や卵子を提供した第三者の情報管理などを担う公的機関の設置を提案する文書を野田聖子こども政策担当相に提出したと発表した。日産婦によると、野田担当相からは、２０２３年度の創設を目指す「こども家庭庁」への設置に向け前向きな返答があったという。
　日産婦は公的機関の役割について、計１０項目を提案。精子や卵子を提供した第三者情報の長期管理のほか、提供を受けて生まれた子の「出自を知る権利」の保障に向けた検討、若年がん患者が治療により生殖機能が低下する前に凍結保存した精子・卵子の長期管理などを例示した。（2022/02/17-19:57）

The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology has proposed the establishment of a public institution that performs administrative functions related to reproductive medicine, including the management of information on third-party donors of eggs or sperm.
   The society submitted a document regarding the proposed public institution to Seiko Noda, minister in charge of measures on Japan's low birthrate.
   The minister offered a positive response toward the launch of such an institution at a children's and families' agency the government aims to set up in fiscal 2023 as the "control tower" for various policies related to children, society officials said.
   The society proposed 10 items of functions to be performed by the envisioned public institution. In addition to managing egg or sperm donors' information for long periods of time, the institution is expected to engage in the work to guarantee donor-conceived children the right to know their origins and also in the long-term management of eggs or sperm of young cancer sufferers that were frozen prior to the start of their cancer treatment.
   Mikio Mikami, who chairs an ethics panel at the society, told a press conference that discussing the wide-ranging issues related to reproductive medicine "goes beyond the limit of one academic society's ability."