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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access published online on March 24, 2005
Human Reproduction, doi:10.1093/humrep/deh871
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received December 16, 2003
Revised January 29, 2004
Accepted February 23, 2005

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Italy enacts new law on medically assisted reproduction

Andrea Boggio 1*

1 Unité de recherche et d'enseignement en bioéthique, Centre Médical Universitaire, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Andrea Boggio, E-mail: Andrea.Boggio{at}medicine.unige.ch


  Abstract

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.

Keywords: cryopreservation; embryos (legal status of); fertilization; medically assisted reproduction; preimplantation testing.
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