Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary Italy

Hanafin, Patrick

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“…The first Italian law regulating assisted reproduction was issued in 2004. A formal claim for a proper law arose in the 1990s, when Italy became internationally famous for the sensational work of some doctors in the private sector and started to be called 'the wild west' of procreation by neo-conservative politicians and columnists (Cirant, 2005;Hanafin, 2006;Inhorn et al, 2010). The difficulties that Italy had in promoting a law regulating assisted reproductive technology were clear, as it took years for the draft law to be presented to the Parliament.…”

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Abandoned by the State, betrayed by the Church: Italian experiences of cross-border reproductive care

Zanini

2011

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

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This paper investigates the case of Italians travelling abroad for fertility treatments as a reaction to the restrictive Italian law regulating medically assisted procreation. The acknowledgement of legal limitations provokes special feelings of abandonment while the decision to leave the country represents intentions that oppose institutional positions and results in an embodied dissent against them. The choice of destination considers legal, medical, economic, logistic and cultural matters and pertains to the re-elaboration of one's own way of understanding reproduction and interpreting restrictive rules on the matter. This paper first presents the Italian law concerning assisted reproduction and the political, moral and cultural context in which this law has been approved, contested and partially modified. Then, the experiences of Italians undertaking cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) are analysed, focusing on feelings that people develop in the face of restrictive legislation and on the meaning that CBRC acquires in their reproductive stories. Finally, the criteria that lead people to take specific decisions concerning destinations are explored in order to show which kind of expectations and needs they have with regard to CBRC and which elements they deem important to consider their experience fulfilling and successful.

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Abandoned by the State, betrayed by the Church: Italian experiences of cross-border reproductive care

Zanini

2011

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

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“…The core of Italian law is to control access to reproductive technologies, signifi cantly restricting new forms of family by introducing into the law the legal and symbolic recognition of the extracorporeal embryo as a person with rights. 7 The Italian debate was morally intense and there are arguments, proposed by the ADIn, that are similar to the Italian law -in particular, the proposition that research with adult stem cells should be promoted, instead of embryonic stem cell research. One possible explanation for this peculiarity of the Italian law in the international perspective is the Catholic Church's participation in State decisions, where scientists were threatened with excommunication due to their defense of embryo research.…”

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Cenário internacional da pesquisa em células-tronco embrionárias

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2009

Rev. Saúde Pública

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OBJECTIVE:To comparatively analyze governmental regulations on embryonic stem cell research among countries. METHODS:The study was performed between March and May 2008, using a direct electronic search through offi cial databases of legislative documents from 25 selected countries, confi rmed by email consultation with researchers and authorities from these countries, when necessary. RESULTS:Results showed a trend to allow the practice of embryonic stem cell research, though with strict ethical restrictions. Among the countries analyzed, only Italy and Germany explicitly condemned the extraction of stem cells and only Italy prohibits their subsequent use. Recent judicial decisions in Brazil are in accordance with the international regulatory context of embryo research. CONCLUSIONS:The trend observed represents freedom of research to promote knowledge as a public good, emphasized by the expectation of therapeutic potentiality of embryonic stem cell research to treat and cure diseases without any medical care.

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Ein dystopischer Raum der Biopolitik: Der Report der Magd aus sozialgeographischer Perspektive

Miggelbrink

2021

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Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary Italy

Abstract: This article examines how the recently introduced law on assisted reproduction in Italy, which gives symbolic legal recognition to the embryo, came about, and how a referendum, which would have repealed large sections of it, failed.

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Abandoned by the State, betrayed by the Church: Italian experiences of cross-border reproductive care

Abandoned by the State, betrayed by the Church: Italian experiences of cross-border reproductive care

Cenário internacional da pesquisa em células-tronco embrionárias

Ein dystopischer Raum der Biopolitik: Der Report der Magd aus sozialgeographischer Perspektive

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