Proposal for a bill making ‘surrogacy’ a universal crime in Italy

While debates continue in the country about the possibility of same-sex couples having children and their rights, a new step has come from the government.

According to news from the Italian agency ANSA, the ultra-right Party of the Brothers of Italy (FdI), the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the great partner of the government, presented a proposal to the lower house of parliament, the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, to make surrogacy a universal crime.

It was stated that the proposal in question was aimed at preventing people from going abroad for the practice of surrogacy, which is currently illegal and therefore a crime in Italy.

WHAT HAPPENED?

In Italy, the government last week halted the registration of same-sex couples as legal parents of children they had through a surrogate mother.

Likewise, Meloni’s party, FdI, had made a decision in the Senate’s European Policy Commission last week that prevented European Union regulations from recognizing the rights of same-sex couples and their children.

On March 18, in Milan, the second largest city in the country, a protest march was held against the government’s decision to stop the registration of children of same-sex couples as their legal families.

Speaking on a television show about public debates, Eugenia Roccella, Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities in the right-wing coalition government, said: “Surrogacy is prohibited in Italy and mentioning it by name; means rented matrix”. she had used the phrase. (AA)