Home inseminations are growing in Portugal. They are combined through private Facebook groups and are usually free. However, there are quite doubts about its legality and, above all, security.
The waiting time in the NHS is three years. In the private, it’s expensive. The solution for many people who want to get pregnant is to make a homemade insemination.
This is a method in which, without sexual intercourse and without doctors, is inserted sperm in the vagina using a syringe.
In Portugal, this practice is gaining strength – and in many cases it begins in Facebook private groupswith men willing to donate semen and women who want to get pregnant.
John (fictitious name) is a semen donor and reported to the simple way this practice is processed: “I just collect my sperm to a glass and deliver. The collection and insemination process should last a maximum of 30 minutes, should not waste much time.”
This anonymous donor confesses that it has been much sought after. Despite not having the quantification of inseminations, it ensures that “They were dozenssome successfully to the first. ”
“I had several positives even in shopping centers, by the way, the first positive was in a mall,” says João, who says that Do not charge moneybecause consider sufficiently gratifying to pass its genetics to new generations“I want to help those who need and not hide that there is a proud side of feeling that my genes are being passed to a new generation.”
As referred to in the investigation of the CM, most of these groups for home inseminations are mainly constituted by Lesbian couples and single women. However, there are also heterosexual couples.
In theory, this method does not involve sex. But John says that There are those who ask. “All without any financial counterpart“Warning.
“They have already asked me to do it naturally. I already accepted and already rejected, because refusal when women reject analyzes“He clarifies.
“It’s a crime”
Opinions are divided as to the legality of the homemade insemination method.
To CM, Carlos Calhaz JorgePresident of the National Council for Medically Assisted Procreation (CNPMA) speaks of a “Crime in the light of our legislation”.
The law provides that the techniques of medically assisted procreation can only be made in places authorized by the Ministry of Health and that those who do it have to be qualified for it.
Calhaz Jorge confirmed to Lusa that the insemination at home “is a crime”, considering being a “cultural fantasy” that should be avoided.
“Medically assisted procreation techniques, which include artificial insemination, are necessarily and legally only achievable in expressly authorized centers. If CNPMA had or has been aware of some specific case, it will have to communicate to the Public Prosecution Service, because this is a crime,” he explained.
According to the person responsible, the “home insemination” method is “a complete illegality and from the practical point of viewin terms of respect for health and avoiding the risk of infections or genetic risks, it is an absolute contradiction. ”
“What is at stake is non -scrutiny and the lack of technical criteria and trackers in relation to donors. This is not to mention the other legal aspect, which is, only children eventually donation can have access to the identity of the donors when they reach 18 years. Therefore, no one more involved in procedures, nor legally beneficiaries or beneficiaries have the right to know the identity of the donors,” he said.
On the other hand, the lawyer José Paulo Pinho referred to the Correio da Manhã, that “The law is a bit silent”. In many cases, these issues are possible to circumvent.
“Let’s suppose it has an occasional relationship. Because there can be the introduction of semen [através de uma relação sexual] And can’t you leave it to introduce? What is the difference? ”Asks the lawyer.
Health risks
Regarding security, they worry the sexually transmitted infectionsos wounds or vaginal problemsas Anaphylactic Reactionsas well as contamination.
“In artificial insemination the sperm is treated. In home insemination we do not know and there may be a severe allergic reaction,” Miguel Tuna, expert in Gynecology-Obstetrics and Reproduction Medicine, to CM.
Although not recommending this methodthe doctor acknowledges that many women face him as “a light at the bottom of the tunnel” – especially for those waiting for three years at NHS or has no money to pay a private clinic.
