Poland’s government is preparing a new bioethics campaign for the Council of Europe regarding in vitro fertilization, set to be ready this fall.

Jaroslaw Gowin is acting head of the government’s bioethics workgroup drawing up the report regarding in vitro fertilization. He stated that there are many controversies surrounding the method of conception, and the report “provides alternative recommendations,” though he did not elaborate.

Gowin highlighted the fact that the right to use the method of IVF should be available to everyone - for married couples, heterosexual couples, single people and lesbian couples.

The government’s senior coalition partner – Civic Platform - wants to make in vitro available to all, though Gowin added, “I will not force a resolution.” The final form of the recommendations will be left to Prime Minister Donald Tusk to decide.

The more liberal attitude, regarding the availability of IVF to potentially unmarried mothers, presented by Gowin is at odds with remarks he made back in April this year when he said that, “Only mother and a father are capable of giving a child a proper upbringing,” though he said at the time that he was speaking on a personal basis and not as a member of the government.

The bioethics workgroup, through the office of the PM, is made up of lawyers, doctors, biologists, philosophers and ethicists who are preparing a paper entitled “The Consequences of Bioethics in the Council of Europe,” for ratification that would regulate methods of in vitro fertilization on a Europe-wide basis.

The members of the work group have to highlight the consequences of in vitro fertilization, finalize changes in legislation, and recommend forms of implementing the regulations. Each Council of Europe member country has the right to ratify the document.