%0 Book Section %T Eugenics a Human Right publisher Peter Lang %D 2014 %U 978-3-631-64227 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35677 %X The European Court of Human Rights was established as the main instrument for the implemetation of the Convention intended to protect human rights. This Court has spoken against Italy with a very brief statement of grounds at the request of two residents in this State: Rosetta Costa and M. Walter Pavani. Both were carriers for a genetic disease and both wanted access to medically assisted procreation in order to prevent the transmission of a genetic disease by preimplantation embryo selection. %~