Italy enacts new law on medically assisted reproduction.
- Boggio A Unité de recherche et d'enseignement en bioéthique, Centre Médical Universitaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland. Andrea.Boggio@medicine.unige.ch
- 2005-03-26
Published in:
- Human reproduction (Oxford, England). - 2005
Genetics and Reproduction
Legal Approach
Cryopreservation
Embryo Research
Embryo Transfer
Ethics, Medical
Female
Human Rights
Humans
Italy
Physician-Patient Relations
Pregnancy
Preimplantation Diagnosis
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
English
In 2004, the Italian Parliament enacted a law regulating medically assisted reproduction. Although the law recognizes as legal certain assisted reproduction techniques, several other procedures are implicitly or expressly banned: oocyte and sperm donation, using embryos for the scientific research purposes and reproductive cloning. In this article, I outline the new legal framework, pointing out some of the shortcomings of its provisions, such as the failure to define what an 'embryo' is, the contradictions between this law and the law on abortion, the opportunity for Italian couples to circumvent some of the prohibitions by resorting to 'reproductive tourism', and the central role that physicians play in the new legal framework.
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- English
- Open access status
- bronze
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- DOI 10.1093/humrep/deh871
- PMID 15790606
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/221514
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