The author presents the concluding remarks of the Conference held in Gaeta on 11 and 12 June 2025 on Genetic Identity and Parenthood in the Era of Reproductive Technologies, retracing the various papers delivered during the event. He develops a series of reflections, highlighting a clash of paradigms in the field of filiation arising from the convergence of biotechnology and voluntarism. This tension also entails a constitutional reorientation, since the naturalistic paradigm is the one enshrined in the Constitution with regard to family law, whereas the challenging paradigm appears to relocate filiation within the sphere of individual rights, and in particular within the right to self-determination derived from Article 2 of the Constitution. The author examines several issues, including the age limit for medically assisted procreation, heterologous fertilisation, the relevance in the Italian legal order of surrogacy carried out abroad, adoption by single individuals and by same-sex couples, embryo adoption, as well as certain applications of embryo research.
Nicolussi, A., Conclusioni, in Clarizia, C. O., Parini G, P. G. A., Prisco, P. I. (ed.), Identità genetica e genitorialità nell’era delle tecniche procreative. Atti del Convegno PRIN Castello Angioino di Gaeta, 11 e 12 giugno 2025, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli 2026: 213- 233 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/336814]
Conclusioni
Nicolussi, Andrea
2026
Abstract
The author presents the concluding remarks of the Conference held in Gaeta on 11 and 12 June 2025 on Genetic Identity and Parenthood in the Era of Reproductive Technologies, retracing the various papers delivered during the event. He develops a series of reflections, highlighting a clash of paradigms in the field of filiation arising from the convergence of biotechnology and voluntarism. This tension also entails a constitutional reorientation, since the naturalistic paradigm is the one enshrined in the Constitution with regard to family law, whereas the challenging paradigm appears to relocate filiation within the sphere of individual rights, and in particular within the right to self-determination derived from Article 2 of the Constitution. The author examines several issues, including the age limit for medically assisted procreation, heterologous fertilisation, the relevance in the Italian legal order of surrogacy carried out abroad, adoption by single individuals and by same-sex couples, embryo adoption, as well as certain applications of embryo research.
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