[ **up: [[Conception]]** ] --- # Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) [[2025-0311. 'Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are used to aid in achieving pregnancy conception in individuals who are having difficulty doing so spontaneously.'|'Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are used to aid in achieving pregnancy conception in individuals who are having difficulty doing so spontaneously.']][^1] [[2025-0311. 'Assisted reproductive technologies (ART), by the American Center for Disease Control (CDC) definition, are any fertility-related treatments in which eggs or embryos are manipulated.'|'Assisted reproductive technologies (ART), by the American Center for Disease Control (CDC) definition, are any fertility-related treatments in which eggs or embryos are manipulated.']][^1] --- ## ART – China - [[2025-0214. 'The use of ART in China is strongly connected to the country’s unique birth planning policies.']][^2] + [[2025-0214. Following a Chinese government order in 2001, IUI and IVF were only available to married infertile couples; surrogacy, and the trading of human sperm, eggs and embryos, were prohibited.]][^3] - [[2025-0214. 'China’s ART regulations have strongly reinforced a hetero-reproductive family model, denying parenthood to single and non-heterosexual people and restricting their ability to form legible family units.']][^3] [^1]: Meaghan Jain & Manvinder Singh, ‘[[Jain & Singh. ‘Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Techniques’, 2023.|Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Techniques]]’, *National Library of Medicine*, updated 7 June 2023, n.p., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK576409/. [^2]: Han Tao, ‘[[Tao. ‘A desirable future or unaffordable hope_ Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China’, 2022.|A Desirable Future or Unaffordable Hope? Queer People Becoming Parents Through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Guangdong, China]]’, *Culture, Health & Sexuality*, (16 March 2022), p. 2. [^3]: Han Tao, ‘[[Tao. ‘A desirable future or unaffordable hope_ Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China’, 2022.|A Desirable Future or Unaffordable Hope? Queer People Becoming Parents Through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Guangdong, China]]’, *Culture, Health & Sexuality*, (16 March 2022), p. 3.