Uganda, April 26 -- The Uganda Law Reform Commission has asked Parliament to revisit a section of the Human-Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2023, which it says will mainly benefit couples and lock out single parents.

The commission's chairperson, Ms Pamela Tibihikirra-Kalyegira, and the assistant commissioner, Ms Jeroline Akubu, presented their reservations before the Parliament's Committee on Health that is currently processing the Bill.

The provision under contention states: "This Act applies to a man and woman who jointly seek to use human-assisted reproductive technology to obtain a child; and a man and woman, where either the man or woman or both the man and woman suffer primary or secondary infertility or health-related cha...