Amid criticism from the Roman Catholic church and anti-abortion activists, technicians on Thursday will start destroying frozen human embryos under a 1990 law on artificial fertilization.
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Amid criticism from the Roman Catholic church and pro-life activists, technicians on Thursday will start destroying frozen human embryos under a 1990 law on artificial fertilization.
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With parliament so far unable to come up with a law, an association of Italian doctors adopted guidelines Sunday on artificial fertilization, including a ban on surrogate mothers.
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The Italian Medical Association last weekend leapt into the fray with its own rules, barring doctors from using artificial fertilization treatment on women over 50, single women and lesbians.
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With less than 48 hours to go before technicians start destroying several thousand human embryos under regulations governing artificial fertilization, dozens of couples have come forward asking for more time.
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The Pontifical Academy of Life said that the spiritual soul, " the constitutive kernal " of every human being created by God, cannot be produced through artificial fertilization or cloning.
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Artificial fertilization ( by shipping semen ) is another option, but male animals can experience stress during semen collection, and the same goes for females during the artificial insemination procedure.
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While the Vatican has repeatedly condemned artificial fertilization methods, it is the strong influence of the Catholic church in Italian politics that has figured in failures to make a law.
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:: : : Also " all techniques of heterologous artificial fertilization, 22 as well as those techniques of homologous artificial fertilization23 which substitute for the conjugal act, are to be excluded.
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The National Council of the Federation of Italian Doctors, Surgeons and Orthodontists also decided at a meeting here to ban artificial fertilization after the death of either the potential mother or father.
