Editor's Corner

Embryonic Screening as A European Human Right

Abstract

 The European Court lifted the Italian ban on pre-implantation diagnostics (PGD). As such the Court accepted PGD as a generally accepted means for medically assisted procreation, which may have consequences for other member states prohibiting PGD.

COSTA and PAVAN v. ITALY (application no. 54270/10) Aug 28, 2012 at www.hudoc.echr.coe.int .

Act no. 40, February 19, 2004, art. 4 and Ministerial Decree on Health no. 31639, April 11, 2008.

NIEMIETZ v. GERMANY, (Appl. no. 13710/88) Dec. 16, 1992 (§ 29).

DICKSON v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (appl. no. 44362/04) Dec 4, 2007; SH v. AUSTRIA (Appl. no. 57813/00) Nov 3, 2011; EVANS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM(Appl. no. 6339/05) April 10, 2007.

Article 12 Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Biomedicine Convention), 1997.

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Exter A. Embryonic Screening as A European Human Right. J Family Reprod Health. 2012;6(4):143-144.