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{{Country
|name=Mexico
|image_flag=Mexico.gif
|Region=Latin America
|Population=108,700,891
|GDP=893,365
|Eggs for assisted reproduction=no policy
|Eggs for research=?
|Inheritable genetic modification=?
|Preimplantation genetic diagnosis=no policy
|Reproductive cloning=PROHIBITED
|Research cloning=PROHIBITED
|Sex selection=?
|Surrogacy=?
|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development=Member
|1997 COE Biomedicine Convention=n/a
|1998 COE Cloning Convention=n/a
|2005 UN Cloning Vote=YES
|2005 UNESCO Sports Doping Convention=RATIFIED
|Treaty of Lisbon=n/a
|Key laws and policies=* General Health Law (February 7, 1984, amended June 2006)<ref name=iskngppc>Rosario M. Isasi and Bartha M. Knoppers, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/pdf/geneticTesting.pdf National Regulatory Frameworks Regarding Human Reproductive Genetic Testing]," A Report for the Genetics and Public Policy Center (July 2006)</ref>
* Regulation of the General Health Law on Scientific Health Research (1985)<ref name=iskngppc/>
|Prohibited practices=Reproductive and research cloning, inheritable genetic modification, and surrogacy are prohibited, at least implicitly.<ref name="gppc1">Genetics and Public Policy Center, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/policy.international.php?action=detail&laws_id=29  Cloning, General Health Law (Mexico)]"</ref><ref name="gppc2">Genetics and Public Policy Center, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/policy.international.php?action=detail&laws_id=42  Human Genetic Modification, General Health Law (Mexico)]"</ref><ref name=wm>Kathryn Wheat and Kirstin Matthews, "[http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~neal/stemcell/World.pdf World Human Cloning Policies]," Paper Presented at ''Stem Cells: Saving Lives or Crossing Lines,'' Houston, Texas (November 20-21, 2004)</ref><ref name="cook">Rachel Cook, Shelley Day Sclater, and Felicity Kaganas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FOyyRd9IM74C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=mexico+surrogacy+law+OR+policy&source=web&ots=vNCibMRGt2&sig=bD5ZlVsF7HindsRctDSH9LA1ZZQ&hl=en Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives]'', Hart Publishing (2003) p. 2</ref>
|Permitted and regulated practices=Providing eggs for reproduction is permitted under guidelines.<ref name=asrm>American Society for Reproductive Medicine, "[http://www.fertstert.org/issues/contents?issue_key=S0015-0282(07)X0176-6 IFFS Surveillance 07]," ''Fertility and Sterility'' (Vol. 87. No. 4, Suppl. 1, April 2007)</ref>
There is no law or policy regarding PGD.<ref name="gppc3">Genetics and Public Policy Center, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/policy.international.php?action=detail&laws_id=56  Reproductive Genetic Testing, General Health Law (Mexico)]"</ref>
|History="The regulation of PGD has been subject to ample parliamentary debate, and several bills have been introduced. Most of the draft bills call for restricting use of the procedure to serious conditions and for prohibiting PGD sex selection for non-medical purposes."<ref name=iskngppc/>
|External links=* Ministry of Health ([http://portal.salud.gob.mx/ Secretaría de Salud])
}}
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