Italy prevents couples from visiting overseas for surrogacy .

Italy prevents couples from visiting overseas for surrogacy.

Not a valid attachment ID.

The EPA Giorgia Meloni, dressed in a pink waistcoat and white shirt, poses in front of a group of microphones. The EPA
The action is a component of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's socially conservative agenda.
Italy has made it unlawful for couples to travel outside in order to use surrogacy to conceive a child.


The action expands a ban on the practice inside the country to now encompass people who seek it out in locations where it is permitted, including the US or Canada. Lawbreakers risk a maximum sentence of two years in prison and fines of up to €1 million (£835,710).


Critics believe the bill, which was put out by the far-right governing party in Italy, targets LGBT couples who are prohibited from using IVF or adoption in the nation.


When a woman becomes pregnant for another couple or individual, usually because of infertility problems or because they are men in a same-sex relationship, this is known as surrogacy.




The measure was approved by the Italian Senate on Wednesday by a vote of 84 to 58.


Despite the nation's dropping birth rate, the law's opponents protested before the vote, claiming it made it more difficult for people to become parents.


At the protest, LGBT activist Franco Grillini told the Reuters news agency, "If someone has a baby, they should be given a medal."


Instead, if you don't have children the conventional way, you're put in jail here.


"What a terrible law. No nation, there is such a thing in the world.


Giorgia Meloni, the first female prime minister of Italy and head of the Brothers of Italy party, has made the move as part of her socially conservative agenda.


She has identified herself as a Christian mother who feels that only a man and a woman should raise children "God with money."


Matteo Salvini, her deputy, has similarly referred to the practice as a "aberration" that operates like a "ABM" on women.


Prior to Wednesday's ban, the MP who drafted it disputed that it was intended to harm LGBT people: "Heterosexuals make up the majority of surrogacy users."


According to Carolina Varchi, it would "protect women and their dignity."


According to experts who spoke to the BBC, 90% of Italian surrogacy couples are heterosexual, and many of them conceal the fact that they travelled outside to give birth.


However, same-sex couples who bring a child back to Italy are unable to hide in the same manner.
European nations that forbid surrogacy in all its forms.
Paying more for surrogacy than the surrogate's fair costs is prohibited in the UK. Until parenthood is transferred through a parental order, the surrogate will remain listed on the birth certificate.
A surrogacy agreement cannot be enforced by a court in the Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, or Ireland. The same is true in the UK, where a court will determine what is best for the child in the event of a dispute.
Greece welcomes foreign couples and gives the intended parents legal protection; the surrogate has no legal rights over the kid, but it requires a woman to be in the relationship, therefore gay couples and men  single are not allowed. men). Both the United States and Canada acknowledge same-sex couples as the biological parents and permit surrogacy.


LGBT couples have already expressed their concerns about the law to the BBC.


International laws pertaining to surrogacy
Germany, France, Spain, and Italy are some of the

A major component of Meloni's election campaign was anti-LGBT rhetoric, and she has previously voiced her opposition to surrogacy involving LGBT couples.


"Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby," she declared in a 2022 address.


Her administration ordered the municipal council of Milan to cease registering children of same-sex parents in 2023.


According to Meloni, surrogacy is "an emblem of a vile culture that conflates rights with desire and substitutes.

[attachment deleted by admin]