Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Melonigo ahead with your project a penalize citizens who resort to it surrogacy out of the country. For a decade, the practice has been under consideration a crime within the borders. Now, the Italian Parliament has given a new visa to folder a punish even those who substitute bellies abroad.
“Universal Crime”it is the category with which the right-wing coalition seeks to extend the ban on this practice, which consists of a woman carrying the child of another couple in her womb.
This is how it was recorded in the series of changes that the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies presented this Wednesday to a bill approved in February by the government that leads the Far-right and conservative Meloni.
The new amendment prohibits “Italian citizens” from using “rental bellies” even abroad. Thus, according to the official letter, an attempt is made to “obstruct any practice that can be configured as a commercial trafficking of children.
This Wednesday’s approval is the first parliamentary support for the Meloni bill. The opposition partiessuch as the social democratic Democratic Party (PD) or the populist Movimento 5 Stelle, voted against. They claimed that the project is contrary to the Constitution and disregards children, among other topics.
“Italy is in the hands of an irresponsible government and what, to continue its ideological furyit attacks people’s rights,” they said from 5 Stars.
However, the government’s position is firm. The Minister for the Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities, Eugenia Roccella, confirmed the “clear and absolute condemnation of any form of surrogacy because it harms the dignity of women And children’s rights.”
Matteo Salvini, former vice president and current infrastructure minister, said: “It was our battle and we are carrying it forward: now the next step at headquarters, for the definitive go-ahead for a measure of common sense and humanity. Women don’t rentChildren cannot be bought: from words to deeds”.
Meanwhile, he fathered the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein debate within its political force: While she defended surrogacy, she acknowledged that it’s an issue “delicate and dense” which requires a deep debate within the formation.
Surrogacy: fines, prison and appeal abroad
The bill should reach the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies June 19th. Then it should go to the Senate for final approval, which yesand it is taken for granted by the majority of the right.
Surrogacy is a crime in Italy by a 2004 law punishable with penalties ranging from three months and two years of imprisonment and fines between 600 thousand and 1 million euros to “anyone who, for whatever reason, carries out, organizes or sponsors the commercialization of gametes or embryos”.
Without the right to adopt or assisted reproduction treatments, women same-sex couples Italian women often go to fertility clinics abroad to fulfill their dream of motherhood and fatherhood, through the gamete donation or surrogacy.
“The urgency of the government is to attack the rainbow families and their children: this unbridled rush by the Justice Commission for a crazy law proves it. We will continue to oppose it, ”said Alessandro Zan, a deputy from the Democratic Party, through his Twitter account.
For its part, the Brothers of Italy (Fdi), Meloni’s party, has already branded this practice as “worse than pedophilia”.
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Source: Clarin
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