. However, with the world advancing around them, Italy needed to keep up with the implementation of such laws, and as a result, the restrictions placed on women in these laws are extremely old-fashioned and reiterate the church's viewpoints on the availability of fertility treatment for all women.
             Firstly, the restrictions on who is eligible for treatment manages to discriminate against a variety of women who do not fit into the traditional Italian notion of who is seemingly 'capable' and therefore able to have children with the assistance of IVF. In Le Norme sulla Procreazione Assistita laws, Capo II, articolo 5. states that the only people who have access to IVF treatment are "coppie di maggiorenni di sesso diverso, coni
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