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Law No 40/2004 on medically assisted conception was adopted to fill-in a major gap in the ltalian legal system, putting an end to the so-called "procreative wild west". However, its provisions had left the majority's expectations largely unfulfilled.
The decade following the entry into force of the law was marked by a number of- national and international - judicial decisions which produced a progressive attrition of the laws prohibitions. The interaction between the Italian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights has thus made it possible for judges to consent - in part and as a matter of urgency- to requests of couples who, being carrier of a genetic disease, are willing to have children while avoiding to incur into the risk of transmitting the disorder. Pivotal was certainly decision No 151/2009 whence the Constitutional Court relativized the protection of the embryo. For their part, in 2012 the European Court judges emphasized the disproportion in the ltalian legislation of the protection of the embryo, as compared to the other interests at stake.
This creative case-law, by assimilating supranational principies, sacrifices the certainty o/ the law in the name of equitable justice, overcoming the inaction of the ltalian Parliament.
1. I dubbi sulla conformità della legge n. 40/2004 ai parametri internazionali. - 2. Le misure a tutela dell'embrione: giurisprudenza di merito e costituzionale. - 3. Segue: giurisprudenza europea. - 4. Segue: ultimi sviluppi. - 5. La ricerca sugli embrioni davanti alla Corte europea. - 6. La fecondazione eterologa tra Corte europea e Corte Costituzionale. - 7. Segue: epilogo. - 8. La surroga di maternità: profili penali. - 9. Segue: profili civili. - 10. Segue: profili previdenziali. - 11. Conclusioni e spunti di riflessione.
