After the first reading in the Sejm lower house last Friday PMs sent five out of six IVF bills back to parliamentary committees, having rejected a draft law by Teresa Wargocka (PiS) proposing punishment for IVF treatment with up to 5 years in jail.

The other five bills written by the ruling PO and main opposition PiS range from the liberal proposal by Malgorzata Kidawa-Błonska (PO) according to which IVF treatment would be subsidized by the NFZ national health fund, through more conservative draft law by Jaroslaw Gowin (PO) seeking to ban the freezing of embryos and limiting NFZ funding only to married couples, to the bill authored by Boleslaw Piecha (PiS) who demands complete ban on in vitro conception.