Laws passed by the majority of center-right on Vatican mandate have opened a new Italian tourism sector: the procreative tourism. Despite the triumphalistic proclamations of the Minister of Health undersecretary that the Law 40 work very well, the reality is that every year thousands of italian couples go abroad to have a baby. Who indeed has reason to fear genetic diseases in Italy cannot use the pre-implantation diagnosis, instead allowed in all European countries and even in Turkey.
For those who chose the in vitro fertilization in Italy, the data of the Health state institute say that triplets births came to 3.5%, against a European average of 0.8%. Effect of the mandatory implantation of all embryos. Tuesday 31 March, the Constitutional Court must rule on appeals made by many couples who claim the right to use the pre-implantation diagnostic systems. The law would be unconstitutional because it violates art. 32 of the Constitution, which protects the rights of health, preventing the possible carriers of genetic diseases to have access to available and effective techniques for prevention.
The government and the media release announcements that emphasize the increase in births, but forget to mention that in other European countries, where there are more liberal laws, the success rate for those undergoing assisted fertilization is much higher. They forget to mention that the law 40 has led to an increase of adverse outcomes of pregnancies, of abortions prompted by genetic malformations and of multiple births. And with a great leap of imagination attach to the law 40 the increasing success rates of fertilization. Thanks to the law, not to the doctors who work in fertilization centers and to scientific research.
Meanwhile, patients treated continue to increase. Thanks to this as well? No, effect of the continued aging of mothers in a country where getting a job, housing and economic stability at 20-25 years is almost science fiction.
The success of the Law 40 is all of Spain, Switzerland and other countries benefiting from the procreative tourism. The success of the Law 40 is increasing abortions that could be avoided by preimplantation diagnosis.
And it is difficult to understand where is the defense of life in all this.
If you must go to be born in Switzerland, to die go to Holland. The so-called law on biological will is actually a stop, since it provides that a person can be kept alive, even when his brain is completely dead, with artificial hydration and feeding. The possibility of leaving a "biological will", as in all civilized countries, was virtually completely nullified by Udc (catholic party) that made it not binding on the doctor. The Italians who do not want to be stuck for years in a hospital bed becoming in practice living dead have the only hope to know in advance when the time is coming and leave for a more civilized European country, as the Netherlands. There when you're old and sick, with no hopes of recovery, you can live if you want to, you can die if you want to, and the State and the Church are not allowed to decide for you.
And here it is difficult to understand where is the love of your neighbor, and Christian charity, in preventing a brain dead person from going where it should go in peace. It's not even understandable what is the relationship between the love of your neighbor and the will to force everyone to live and die according to the dogmas of a few.
This is Italy for you. Try to be born and die somewhere else.
Report on implementation of Law 40 from the Minister Livia Turco during the previous government , reported by the website molecularlab.it
Chronicle of two shame law on the site of the Luca Coscioni organization
Francesco Defferrari
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