The National Commission for Bioethics of the Romanian Orthodox Church is to propose next week that the Holy Synod should analyze a thorough report on assisted human reproduction. In the following meeting scheduled for June the Romanian Orthodox Church is to decide for or against it or they may postpone an official view on the in vitro fertilization in Christian terms. In the meantime assisted human reproduction still lacks legal basis in Romania. Ovidiu Branzan, formerly a health minister, had elaborated a draft on it some years ago, but it was dismissed after long months of analysis. (...) (C.P.)