Law 40 on Medically Assisted Procreation is 20 years old and there are approximately "14,000 children born per year after the elimination of unconstitutional prohibitions that the law provided for".
This is underlined by the Luca Coscioni Association.
"Thanks to the achievements achieved with the intervention of the Constitutional Court - states Filomena Gallo, secretary of the association - since 2010, approximately 14,000 children have been born every year who would otherwise never have been born.
We will continue to resort to the courts to eliminate the latest bans".
In fact, on 10 February 2004, Parliament approved law 40, 'Regulations regarding medically assisted procreation'.
On the 19th of the same month the law was signed and then published in the Official Journal to come into force on March 10th.
A law, notes the Coscioni association, "fills with unconstitutional prohibitions against the right to reproductive health, to freedom of choice in accessing care and against the freedom of scientific research, which the lawyer Gallo together with the association and other patient associations and couples immediately placed it at the center of incessant political action and legal defense".
In 2005 (12 and 13 June) a popular referendum was promoted on the repeal of a large part of the bans.
The quorum was not reached but 80% of those who voted, underlines Gallo, "chose to cancel the prohibitions on assisted fertilization and research on embryonic stem cells".
Over the years, the Coscioni Association has also activated, he continues, "national and international jurisdictions, making it possible: the fertilization of more than three gametics, eliminating the obligation of simultaneous implantation; heterologous fertilization; access to PMA for fertile couples carrying genetic pathologies".
To date, the association specifies, "the ban on scientific research on embryos unsuitable for pregnancy, on which Parliament was called to legislate in 2016 by the Consulta, the discrimination of access to techniques and the inequality between Regions remain".
Reproduction reserved © Copyright ANSA