Italy Archivi - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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19 April 2017

Widow of Italian Right-To-Die Protagonist Turns Herself In
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21 March 2017

Italy Needs Abortion Doctors
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10 September 2015

European court strikes down challenge to embryo law.
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12 November 2014

Advocating for choice in Europe
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4 September 2014

Italy: Ministry of Health proposes draft legislation on gamete donation.
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21 August 2014

Italy: Gamete donation, court says: “no regulatory gap after ban on gamete donation was found unconstitutional.”
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14 August 2014

Italy: Custody battle over IVF mix-up babies.

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Widow of Italian Right-To-Die Protagonist Turns Herself In

Italy Needs Abortion Doctors

European court strikes down challenge to embryo law.

Advocating for choice in Europe

Italy: Ministry of Health proposes draft legislation on gamete donation.

Italy: Gamete donation, court says: “no regulatory gap after ban on gamete donation was found unconstitutional.”

Italy: Custody battle over IVF mix-up babies.

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