Italy is cracking down on surrogacy
The Italian government is cracking down on both commercial and altruistic surrogacy, dismaying many gay couples. According to a feature in the Wall Street Journal,...
Does Giorgia Meloni have a bioethics program?
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia and Italy’s presumptive new prime minister, has views which must be sending a shiver down the spine of...
First legal assisted suicide in Italy
Italy’s parliament is still debating the details of legal assisted suicide. However, last Thursday the first Italian to take advantage of a 2019 ruling by...
Italy on the brink of legalising assisted suicide
Italy has moved closer to the legalisation of assisted suicide. The lower house of parliament voted for a new law -- by 253 votes to...
Italian euthanasia referendum sunk by Constitutional Court
The Italian Constitutional Court blocked a proposal for a national referendum on the right to die this week. The leading lobby group, Associazione Luca...
Italy’s highest court rules that assisted suicide is permissible
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled this week that assisted suicide is legal if a person is experiencing “intolerable physical and psychological suffering". Anyone who "facilitates the...