Human reproduction

An 11-year-old girl has given birth in Crete, doctors revealed on Monday.

The girl, a member of the island’s Roma community, was taken to the hospital on Sunday night. Doctors performed a caesarean section to deliver the child, which weighed 3.2 kilos, and was said to be healthy.

The new rulebook produced by the Health Ministry that instructs doctors how they should counsel those who are seeking an abortion looks more like a guide for applying psychological pressure on women to change their minds, medical professionals told BIRN.

The Church of Greece’s Holy Synod said Thursday that it supports couples having IVF treatment but is against mothers aborting their babies, regardless of whether the children have been diagnosed as having physical or mental problems.

Macedonia's Constitutional Court has rejected a challenge to the changed law on terminations, adopted in September 2013, saying the changes do not prohibit abortion but only regulate the procedures.
 
Several NGOs had submitted complaints to the Constitutional Court, arguing that the new requirements put undue physical, administrative and time-related pressure on pregnant women.

A Swedish woman has become the world's first to give birth after having a womb transplant, opening up the possibility for thousands of infertile women to have babies, the doctor in charge of the research project said on Saturday.

Delivery pains even before pregnancy

More than 800 couples in Serbia who cannot conceive children naturally, have to wait for in vitro fertilisation more than a year due to collecting necessary documentation.