ROME — Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples.
Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide.
The measure marks the strongest salvo yet in far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s bid to put a conservative stamp on Italian society, and it elevates surrogacy as a hot-button issue in the West’s raging culture wars.
The law, passed last year by the lower house and effectively ensured by the Senate vote on Wednesday, also criminalizes work by Italian citizens employed as doctors, nurses and technicians in foreign fertility clinics that facilitate surrogacies.
!ping lgbt
MistakePerfect8485 on
Coming from the same assholes who throw hissy fits over low birthrates (or rather white birthrates).
PadishaEmperor on
There is still adoption left, right?
I am also sceptical about surrogacy in general and not sure if it is correct to put a conservative sticker on it. Surrogacy might exploit women, especially poorer ones, it also commercialises the body of both the child and mother.
That said, I don’t think that long prison sentences are the way to go.
CzaroftheUniverse on
Two adults consent, one gets money as a benefit, the other gets a child they can love and raise well.
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ROME — Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples.
Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide.
The measure marks the strongest salvo yet in far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s bid to put a conservative stamp on Italian society, and it elevates surrogacy as a hot-button issue in the West’s raging culture wars.
The law, passed last year by the lower house and effectively ensured by the Senate vote on Wednesday, also criminalizes work by Italian citizens employed as doctors, nurses and technicians in foreign fertility clinics that facilitate surrogacies.
!ping lgbt
Coming from the same assholes who throw hissy fits over low birthrates (or rather white birthrates).
There is still adoption left, right?
I am also sceptical about surrogacy in general and not sure if it is correct to put a conservative sticker on it. Surrogacy might exploit women, especially poorer ones, it also commercialises the body of both the child and mother.
That said, I don’t think that long prison sentences are the way to go.
Two adults consent, one gets money as a benefit, the other gets a child they can love and raise well.
Oh no, the terror.