Rome (Fides Service) - On 13 December 2002 in Camerino there will be a meeting on the theme "La tutela dell'embrione. Nuove prospettive di regolamentazione". This initiative is only the last in chronological order of a path taken by the Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università di Camerino (Italy). In particular this day constitutes a moment of in depth study of themes regarding new life, and it has an extremely actual character since this subject in the matter of a proposed Bill "Norme in materia di procreazione medicalmente assistita", at present being discussed by the Italian Senate. Regulations emerging from the present parliamentary debate will be the first with regard to assisted procreation, a sensitive bio-ethic issue, on which Italy, unlike other countries, has still a dangerous normative void. The proposed bill has the difficult task of introducing medical-scientific procedures involving the sphere of very private human rights, health, sexuality, procreation, life and protection of the unborn child, preservation of embryos not implanted in the womb. This meeting comes at a timely moment just after the historical unprecedented visit to the Italian parliament on November 14 of Pope John Paul II. During his address the Pope said among other things: "The Church's contribution to the development of an attitude and culture by which this reversal of tendency can become possible is her pastoral action in favour of families and openness to life, and more in general in favour of a way of life marked by self-giving. But there is also ample room for political initiatives which, by upholding recognition of the rights of the family as the natural society founded upon marriage, according to the expression of the Constitution of the Italian Republic (cf. art. 29), can make the task of having children and bringing them up less burdensome both socially and economically." (A. P.) (Fides Service 27/11/2002)