More than two decades after voters in a referendum in Slovenia rejected amendments to a 2000 law that would have allowed single women to access IVF (see BioNews 112), the country’s constitutional court has declared that the exclusion of single women and women in same-sex partnerships violates the Constitution.
The ruling, which followed four years of deliberation by the court, does not annul the law immediately. The National Assembly has a year in which to tackle the matter, and the existing provisions will continue to apply until the inconsistency is addressed.
Read more in the Slovenian Times.