Italy's Constitutional Court on
Wednesday ruled that a ban on selecting embryos for fertility
treatments to avoid the transmission of some serious diseases
was illegitimate.
Screening and selecting embryos for grave genetically
transmitted diseases is not a crime, the court said.
However, the Court upheld a ban on suppressing embryos
carrying such diseases.
The Court was ruling on objections raised to Italy's Law 40
approved in 2004, which bans assisted fertility treatments using
eggs or sperm from anonymous donors, IVF treatments for same-sex
couples, surrogate motherhood and suppressing embryos.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in 2012
had already rejected the law saying it went against two
provisions in its convention for the protection of human rights.
Italy's Constitutional Court in April 2014 lifted the ban
on anonymous donor IVF.
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