(di Stefano Rodotà) Il Consiglio di Stato ha appena fatto giustizia dei tentativi di cancellare i risultati dei referendum del 12 e 13 giugno del 2011, quando ventisette milioni di cittadini dissero no alla privatizzazione forzata dell’acqua. Ma è ammissibile il comportamento di
On August 27, 1858, Italian mathematician and philosopher Giuseppe Peano was born. He is he author of over 200 books and papers, and is considered the founder of mathematical logic and set theory. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor. These axioms have been used nearly unchanged in a number of metamathematical investigations, including research into fundamental questions of consistency and completeness of number theory.
ROMA - I punti salienti della legge sul testamento biologico approvata oggi alla Camera, che per il varo definitivo dovrà tornare al Senato, sono almeno due: le dichiarazioni anticipate di trattamento non sono vincolanti per i medici ed escludono la possibilità di sospendere nutrizione e idratazione, salvo in casi terminali. Inoltre, sono applicabili solo se il paziente ha un'accertata assenza di attività cerebrale.
The setting up of the National Bioethics Committee followed resolution no. 6-00038 approved on 5 July 1988 in which the Chamber of Deputies, among other things, committed the Government to promoting an international level comparison on the state of the art of biomedical research and genetic engineering which might serve as a valid point of reference for future choices in which the progress of science can be reconciled with the respect for human freedom and dignity
Italy introduced legislation in 2004 governing assisted reproduction. Before then, the legislative vacuum that existed in Italy had de facto rendered all scientific techniques lawful. That vacuum has now been filled by a controversial and retrogressive law, which permits access to assisted reproduction within very narrow confines. Access is limited to stable heterosexual couples of a fertile age who may use only their own, and not donor, gametes. The woman is under an obligation to have all created embryos, healthy or diseased, implanted.
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