UNa Maxi posting in Rome, portrays the face of Maria Giulia, with a question that affects those who stop to look at him: «Really today could I not be born?». The young woman, born thanks to the PMA, medically assisted procreationwants to symbolically represent all the people who today, in Italy, are not born because, that possibility then granted to his single mother in the nineties, is denied by Law 40 of 2004.
The Luca Coscioni Association: “PMA for all”
The image of Maria Giulia It is at the center of the campaign “PMA for all“promoted by the Luca Coscioni Association, who asks for the opening of assisted procreation also to single women and pairs of the same sex. The initiative aims to denounce an obsolete law and to stimulate a public debate on the plurality of family paths.
The story behind the campaign
The legal and social battle starts from concrete cases. The campaign, in fact, has taken impetus from A procedure started by a single woman from Turin, rejected by a assisted procreation center in Florence. The case arrived in the Constitutional Court, which recognized the limits of article 5 of law 40 and invited Parliament to intervene. However, so far, no change has been approved. Hence the choice of the Association to resume the petition With the aim of collecting 50 thousand signatures, accompanied by a series of symbolic billboards and by the delivery of the petition to the institutions.
Single women and homosexual couples still excluded from national assisted procreation. The campaign of the Coscioni Association to update Law 40 (Getty Images)
Denied rights and social realities that are no longer there
Law 40, moreover, no longer reflects the Italian social reality: the campaignIndeed, aims to show how monoparental families exist And how, in the absence of a regulatory change, many women, when they have the economic possibilities, they are obliged to go out of national borders to achieve the desire to become mothers. But it is not just an economic question, but of equity and social recognition. The campaign, in fact, highlights, like the current law discriminations in several ways, Who wishes to build a family different from the traditional model.
Assisted procreation: two symbol stories
The campaign focuses on two emblematic figures: Maria Giuliadaughter of a single mother who was able to access the PMA in the 90s, and Avoidsingle woman who in 2020 attempted to obtain the same right in Italy without success. Maria Giulia represents the point of view of the children, Avoid that of women who today cannot access assisted fertilization without a partner. Together they embody the generational disparity and the urgency of a more inclusive law.
Social sensitivity is growing
Social sensitivity on the topic is growing, even if many citizens still ignore that single women and homosexual couples are forced to go abroad to become parents. The campaign aims to make information and stimulate the public debate. The mobilization now aims at Parliamentwith the aim of pushing for the modification of article 5 and adapt law 40 to the time. Because families are different today, and the law must recognize them, guaranteeing rights equal to everyone.