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It is legal to put embryos in frozen storage, but it is illegal to destroy embryos or to donate them to research.  There is also a five-year storage limit.

It is illegal to choose donor based upon physical attributes.  The fertility centers chooses the donor based upon the closest phenotypic similarity with the intended parents.

Current Spanish law 14/2006 indicates that women over 18 and in working conditions can have free fertility treatments no matter their sexual orientation or if they are in a relationship or not.    Communities are not obliged to give treatment, however, because some single women who request treatments are actually fertile and do not have any health issues regarding their conceiving capacities.

The Public Health system of Andalucia will allow fertility treatments on single mothers regardless of their marital status or sexual orientation.