Surrogacy under continued attack in Italy

The language of repugnance is strong in these latest developments.

The NYT has the story:

Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Sex Parents.  Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has mostly shown a pragmatic streak abroad. But at home, her government is plunging many gay families into panic. 

"Surrogacy is already illegal if conducted in Italy. But the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to expand the prohibition. It has promoted a bill that would also punish Italians who make use of surrogacy even in places abroad where it is legal, like in parts of the United States. Those Italians who do could face up to two years in prison and be fined the equivalent of about a million dollars.

"Italy’s lower chamber of Parliament approved the bill last summer, and the Senate’s justice committee greenlighted it last month. The Senate is expected to vote on it as soon as the fall.

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"No one can convince me that it is an act of freedom to rent one’s womb,”  [Prime Minister Meloni] said in the spring at an event in Rome. “No one can convince me that it is an act of love to consider children as an over-the-counter product in a supermarket.”

“Uterus renting is a shameful, inhuman practice,” she said. “It will become a universal crime.”

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Surrogacy under siege in Italy