Italians failed to take their chance to overturn the country’s restrictive laws on fertility treatment and embryo research when the majority of those eligible failed to vote in a referendum last weekend.
For the referendum result to be binding, at least 50 per cent of eligible voters had to take part. But only 26 per cent turned out – a victory for the Vatican, which had urged people to stay at home. The outcome means that Italy retains Europe’s strictest law on embryo research and IVF. It was introduced last year to stamp out the IVF “free-for-all” that had pre-dated…
