Received March 26, 2012
Accepted April 14, 2012

Objective:Portuguese and Spanish laws on assisted reproduction are located somewhere between the particularly liberal regulation of the United States, and the extremely restricted current legal regimes of Germany and Italy. The aim of his short study is to describe in its main features these two laws, comparing their solutions and focusing their differences, in order to point out the aspects that could be improved in each one of them. Method: a comparative analysis Results: Legal solutions in Portugal and Spain on this topic do not differ substantially. Though Spanish law adopted more open-minded answers in particular aspects, the fact is that those solutions probably will be also welcomed in Portuguese law, due to the pressure of legal thinkers, left-wing liberal politicians and the National Council of Medially Assisted Reproduction.