Italy surrogacy ban: Couples banned from travelling abroad to seek surrogate
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The move is seen by critics to target LGBT couples, who are not allowed to adopt or use IVF in the country.

The move extends a ban on the practice inside the country to also include those who seek it out in places where it is legal, like the US or Canada. Those who break the law could face up to two years in prison and fines of up to €1m (£835,710).

The law, proposed by the Italy’s far-right governing party, is seen by critics to target LGBT couples - who are not allowed to adopt or use IVF in the country.

Surrogacy is when a woman carries a pregnancy for another couple or individual, usually due to fertility issues or because they are men in a same-sex relationship.

The law passed by 84 votes to 58 in Italy’s senate on Wednesday.

  • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    54 minutes ago

    I cannot understand why governments should care who someone chose as a partner or why they fucking care about personal choices made by couples.

    And I understand even less the people who vote for those morons.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      21 minutes ago

      Surrogacy is not a personal choice by a couple but a contract with a third person affecting the legal status of a fourth person.

      Plenty of states where surrogacy is illegal for everyone, plenty of states where the LGBT angle doesn’t even begin to be an argument because they can adopt, use IFV, etc.

  • daw@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    I can in no way imagine that this is legal in the EU, Schengen and everything. I mean if a Dutch person would go to Germany and drink a beer a 16 the Netherlands cannot prosecute that I think, same with a person from Germany participating in weed consumption in the Netherlands (when Germany still criminalized)

    If it is legal it shouldn’t be.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Healthy, well-functioning society would mean allowing adoption and IFV for LGBT folks and still outlawing surrogacy, or at the very least commercial surrogacy.

      Probably a sign of our times that any- and everything is commodified, including mother/child bonds. What’s even more nuts is that there’s countries where prostitution is illegal but commercial surrogacy legal.