Artificial insemination: maybe something has changed

Sometimes there are good news: this is the case of the writ of the Bologna court, filed two days ago, giving new interpretations to the contested law 40 on artificial insemination. A law that was criticized by several parties and that seems to have been thought without taking into account the female body.

Besides what you could expect from a political majority which have no consideratione of women so to ends up talking about Berlusconi more for photos and unclear tabloid reports of his behavior with an infinite number of young girls, rather than for his policy choices.

The Court of Bologna has decided that from today the techniques of assisted reproduction can be applied not only to those who can not have children because of infertility, but, under Order, even to those who have already had children but they born with serious diseases.
The ordinance does nothing more than add clarification to a sentence of the Constitutional Court, (made last March) which had already took away some limits considered wrong by the scientific community. It also explains why the ban imposed on the diagnosis before implantation, except then allow the woman to abort after fertilization, it is wrong. "The prohibition of preimplantation diagnosis seems unreasonable and inconsistent with the regulatory system when placed in parallel with the widespread practice of prenatal diagnosis, invasive fetal equally, risky for the pregnancy, but perfectly legitimate. "
From today this procedure will be considered as permissible "as the right to abandon the sick embryo or obtain the transfer of only one healthy."

The order signed by Chiara Gamberini has given an answer to a Florentine couple who had turned to the center of Bologna Tecnobios to have a second child after having experienced the pain of a child suffering from Duchenne dystrophy, transmitted by the mother.
The response of the center, law in hand, was no: they couldn't analyze the embryo before implantation.The couple, however, decided not to surrender and has appealed and obtained today an extremely important for those with this law give up, every day, to have their children.
The ordinance permits the preimplantation diagnosis of a minimum of 6 embryos and says the doctor must perform the treatments "in order of the age and risk of dangerous twins pregnancy" and he must freeze "for a future plant embryos fit that can not be transferred immediately. "

So a decision like this, (after the one of Tar of Lazio and the two orders of the Civil Court of Florence) it is necessary to remind the politicians that every woman is different and everyone is entitled to appropriate treatment.
It's likely that the decision of the court will be discussed and we can hope that politicians, taken by railway disaster, G8 and our premier gaffes', will forget all this. In the meantime, a couple can finally proceed with genetic diagnosis on embryos to be able to have a healthy child.

Marianna Lepore

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