OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:41pm – Thursday, October 17, 2024
A bill banning surrogate mothers from traveling abroad was passed by Italy's parliament on Wednesday.
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Supporters say the law upholds the sanctity of motherhood and traditional family values, while critics say the law disproportionately targets gay couples. It is argued that this was a prudent tactic used by the conservative government.
According to Italian media outlets, the new law goes beyond Italy's existing surrogacy ban and threatens prison terms and fines for anyone who travels abroad to have a child through surrogacy.
Reuters The new law was claimed to be the “pet project” of Giorgia Meloni, who was elected as Italy's first female prime minister in 2022. She said she intended to strengthen traditional family values during her time in office, in addition to promoting harsher punishments for those found guilty. Pedophiles and rapists.
After translation: “With final approval in the Senate today, a bill that makes surrogacy a universal crime is finally signed into law. Common sense rules against commodifying women’s bodies and children. Human life has no price. , not a product,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni posted on Twitter.
The Italian Senate approved the bill by a vote of 84 to 58.
Additionally, Alessia Crocini, director of an LGBTQ group called Rainbow Families, also commented in support of the news of the bill.
“It’s gay couples who can’t hide this…this is [targeting] Gay fathers,” Crocini said. washington post.
Italy already banned domestic surrogacy in 2004, and other European countries and some US states have followed suit. At the time, one centrist politician likened surrogacy to the “trafficking of children” and said, “Surrogacy is the most extreme form of commodification of the body.”
Meloni's Italian Brotherhood party shares the Catholic Church's anti-surrogacy stance. Earlier this year, Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy, calling it “deplorable” and “a grave violation of the dignity of women and children.”
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