by Pierpaolo De Natale - Great turning point in the Italian bioethics. The Constitutional Court declared illegal the law number 40 of 2004, according to which it is or, rather, was forbidden the use of an external donor egg cells or sperm in case of absolute infertility. Months ago the courts of Milan, Florence and Catania had raised the issue, and today the judgment.As before 2004, the egg donation will be permitted and men will can donate their sperm.
Infertile couples will no longer be forced to bear substantial economic costs to travel abroad and to conceive their children.
However, a part of Law 40 still in force, in fact fertile couples carriers of genetic diseases, single and omosexual couples still not to make use of heterologous fertilization.
In addiction, there are a lot of resistances. The Catholic world immediately took a critical view of what has happened. The Pontifical Academy for Life manifests "shock and sorrow" and fears aftermath in the pair and on the unborn child. The magazine Famiglia Cristiana speaks of "wild fertilization for all," and "latest Italian madness".
There is also a lot of mistrust on the part of Catholic political forces, such as Ncd and Udc; on the other hand, the progressive political forces, as Sel and Pd, have expressed many positive comments about the repeal.
Finally, it should be noted that during the vote took place in the assembly of the Constitutional Court seven of its 15 judges have expressed their disagreement. This is a clear symbol of how the question is complex and how there is a real split within the public opinion.
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