Online first: 25 maggio 2021

Abstract: This essay analyses the legislation’s shortcomings regarding the burial of aborted fetuses. With the aim of suggesting some revisions of the national legislation in this field, in a context of inaction by the legislator, the paper analyses in particular: a) the question concerning the right to choose the fate of the fetus; b) the possibility of giving the fetus to scientific research, also in consideration of some uses, such as that relating to the experimentation and production of vaccines (also against Covid-19); c) the difficulty of conceiving that the fetus has a right to be buried.