Italian Law *Forces* Women To Choose Abortion

Approved earlier this year, a new law bans both freezing and destroying embryos, limits to three the number of oocytes that can be fertilised, and states that ALL the created embryos must be transferred to the womb.
This does not affect the law which allows termination of a pregnancy up to 24 weeks in cases of serious illness, such as beta-thalassaemia.

Pre-implantation diagnosis can identify an affected embryo but is illegal. One couple, both of whom are carriers for beta-thalassaemia, argued (and lost) the case against implanting an embryo shown to be affected, which they would later abort under the "serious illness" law. Whether or not you agree with the issue of termination, the logic of this argument in these circumstances, seems undeniable. Shame the judge couldn't see it.
The couple lost their pregnancy, a month after the court decision, when she suffered a gastric haemorrhage, thought to be due to stress.

More recently; another Sicilian woman was forced to have all three embryos implanted as per the new laws, and then had to abort one of them because of health risks. In this case the court ruled that to continue with the triple pregnancy would pose a significant risk to the mother's life; thereby forcing the woman to choose abortion, instead of allowing only two embryos to be implanted in the first place. Clearly this is a law which needs to be improved.