Republic - October 22, 2010
ROME - The court raised the issue of Catania on the constitutionality of Act 40 which prohibits the heterologous fertilization, the ova or semen coming from external donors. The decision largely follows the approach of the courts of Florence two weeks ago. The announcement of the new action is given by statoi Marilisa D'Amico, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Milan and member of the office, along with lawyers Costantini, Clara and Papandrea, assisting the couple who brought the action to Catania.
"You can not discriminate against a couple because of the degree of sterility," D'Amico says the lawyer, pointing out that according to Italian law a couple that has no egg or sperm can not make use of reproductive technology assisted being banned from using the donation. It 'also on the basis of this consideration that this action was urgent that the court then "shot" Look at the belief that no grounds for doubt that prohibition conflicts with the Constitution.
"The court in Catania has raised the question of the constitutionality of the absolute prohibition of heterologous fertilization - added the lawyer - to the principle of equality, right to health and compliance of the Italian rules with ours." In its application, in addition to the Italian Constitution, reference was made to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights condemned Austria this year for the prohibition of fertilization eterologa identico a quello contenuto nella legge 40.
"Esprimiamo massima soddisfazione perché sulla scia del tribunale di Firenze anche il tribunale di Catania ha sollevato la questione di costituzionalità relativa al divieto di fecondazione eterologa della legge sulla fecondazione assistita". Questo il commento degli avvocati Filomena Gallo e Gianni Baldini, legali della coppia di Torino che ha ottenuto dai giudici di Firenze il rinvio alla Consulta della legge 40 in relazione al divieto di fecondazione eterologa. Baldini ha sottolineato come il tribunale di Catania abbia investito del caso la Consulta con le stesse argomentazioni sostenute a Firenze e "a dispetto delle obiezioni e delle critiche di taluni all'indomani dell'ordinanza fiorentina".
"It 's clear that the continuing ideological attack the law on assisted reproduction that he already had resisted because it was basically confirmed by the Constitutional Court ruling of 2009 and has now been shown to give good results," said Undersecretary of Health instead Eugenia Roccella who said she was still "confident" about the new ruling that will have to come from the Supreme Court "which already has maintained the system of law."
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