Upper age limit for access to ART: never-ending discussions?

The Czech Republic (CR) is preparing a new act to regulate ART. The goal of the study was to find a generally acceptable limit reflecting specificities of the country. Design: Qualitative analysis of discussions with laymen, speeches of the Parliament members, expert texts. Results: The main arguments of laymen and experts concerned the inviolability of the person's right to make decisions about his or her life and on the other hand the interests of the child brought into the world by an elderly mother. Nobody argued the protection of the oocyte donors. No respondent considered a limit for men. Conclusions: Our research team argues for an upper age limit of 45 years for a woman.