Medically assisted procreation, Maria Giulia born from a single mother: “I am 31 years old but today in Italy I would not have been able to be born”

“Today in Italy my mother could never have put me in the world, as in fact he did in 1994”. Thus begins the testimony of Maria Giulia D’Amicoface of the campaign to support the right to medically assisted procreation for all women, launched by the Luca Coscioni association. In fact, in Italy there is a rule, Law 40 of 2004 Which allows only some women to access the PMA, “to the couples of adults of different sex, married or cohabiting, in potentially fertile age, both living”, or women accompanied by a man, therefore many women are discriminated against and have the choice to go abroad. But they only manage to go there those who can economically afford it.

A limitation that therefore discriminates not only on the basis of the civil status and sexual orientation but also creates strong economic inequalities. In this way, parenting becomes a privilege for a few. As always, behind the data and rules there are people’s stories. Like Maria Giulia, who has decided to give her face to the campaign because no woman should be discriminated against if she wishes to become a mother. “I’ve never seen any problems there”tells. “My mom immediately explained to me both to me and to my brother what we had to answer to those who asked us where our father was and we told the story of two test tubes, also for this reason to make the theme at school has never been a problem”.

Maria Giulia is part of the group “PMA for all”born from about 30 women, within the Coscioni Association who asks Parliament to put an end to discrimination, to promote initiatives on the topic. Among them there is also avoid, 40 years old from Turin, who had received a refusal to access the PMA in Tuscany. His case came to the Constitutional Court and has been confirmed that the legislator can extend access to this practice, also to families other than those envisaged, such as single -year -old families. On that occasion Vanity Fair he had collected the story of Serena Real, today single mother, That before turning to a Spanish clinic, he asked to be able to access assisted fertilization in Italy. «You feel that you are denied a right without a real reason. Discriminated by your own country », he had told us a few weeks after the serene birth, which presented himself before the Constitutional Court alongside Evita.

“My mother simply had not found the right man with whom he wants to build his family, but we created it the same, a family full of all the love that she had to give us”, Maria Giulia concludes. “This is why I am extremely grateful to her and I would like that love that distinguished my family could be a choice for all the women who want it.” The Luca Coscioni association launched one signature collectionto which it can be joined hereand on 18 September he will deposit the signatures collected in the Senate in support of the petition.