Italy enacts a strict ban on worldwide surrogacy

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Italy's far-right authorities handed some of the restrictive bans on worldwide surrogacy in Europe on Wednesday. This makes it unlawful for Italians to make use of surrogate moms overseas or to work in international fertility clinics that facilitate such pregnancies. Home surrogacy has been banned below Italian legislation for twenty years.

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Italy's conservatives have described the brand new legislation as serving to to guard the “dignity” of moms, however critics name it a “authorities crackdown on LGBT households, because the legislation will make it just about inconceivable for homosexual fathers to have youngsters.” The New York Occasions stated. Identical-sex couples are already banned from adopting. The brand new legislation “goes additional” than widespread bans on surrogacy in Europe and “classifies surrogacy as a uncommon, common crime that crosses borders, corresponding to terrorism or genocide,” the Washington Submit stated. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – “a single mom who by no means married her daughter's father – has vowed to strengthen 'conventional household values.'” Italy's continued criminalization of surrogacy comes towards a backdrop of falling beginning charges, stated Reuters, “with the nationwide statistics institute ISTAT in March stated births fell to a document low in 2023 – the 15th consecutive annual decline.”

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