A bill supposed to limit the usage of surrogacy to people with infertility or fitness-demanding situations that save them from reproducing was on Tuesday tabled in Uganda`s parliament.
The bill additionally seeks to set the minimum age for surrogates to 18.
Medical practitioners who defy those provisions may be imprisoned for as much as 5 years if the bill passes.
Medical practitioners also can be jailed for existence if they use their very own gametes or embryos or the ones now no longer decided on with the aid of their clients.
Donors should additionally be freed from genetic diseases.
The Human-Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill became tabled with the aid of Ugandan MP Sarah Opendi and proposes extra policies for different elements of human-assisted duplicate.
The bill additionally seeks to license fertility centres and adjust the donation and garage of sperm, oocytes and embryos.
The bill additionally seeks to introduce protections for kids born via assisted duplicate.
Uganda can be the international benchmark in legislating assisted duplicate if the bill is passed, Ms Opendi become quoted as announcing with the aid of using the non-public Daily Monitor newspaper.