Italian Penal Code, Article 32
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The Republic protects health as an individual and collective fundamental right and offers free treatments to those in need. Nobody may be forced to undergo a certain treatment, if not by law; law cannot violate limits imposed by respect of the human being anyway.
Source
Giordano & De Masellis (2011)
Additional information
Date of entering into force
1989