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Brussels – For the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0it is a “hard blow”\u00a0to gay and infertile couples; for the Washington Post “many Italian families will live in the shadows;” France’s Le Monde<\/a> speaks of a law pushed by “a premier who paints herself as a mother and a Christian.” The law according to\u00a0which the Italian government made surrogacy\u00a0(GPA) a universal offense<\/strong> is making the rounds. From Brussels, Italian opposition leader\u00a0Elly Schlein<\/strong> called it “atrocious propaganda at the expense of people<\/strong> and children.”<\/p>\n

Already a crime in Italy for 20 years, surrogacy will now be prosecuted even if practiced abroad<\/strong>. With penalties of up to two years imprisonment and fines of up to \u20ac1 million. The law, proposed by Fratelli d’Italia, consists of only one article, which amends the previous 2004 law by adding, “If the acts referred to in the previous period are\u00a0committed abroad, the Italian citizen shall be punished according to Italian law.”<\/p>\n

For the secretary of the Democratic Party, the law is an “ideological monstrosity” that “tramples\u00a0the fundamental rights of girls and boys<\/strong>.” In addition to triggering a potential “witch hunt” against those who have resorted to surrogacy, the law could have heavy repercussions on sons and daughters, with investigations or possible convictions against parents. As the\u00a0\u00a0Luca Coscioni Association<\/a> reports, currently, 65 countries in the world that allow surrogacy by law, while 35 provide a solidarity-based form of it. Only Portugal, Greece, the Netherlands, Cyprus, and Ireland allow it in the European Union. However,\u00a0no one criminalizes it if practiced abroad.<\/p>\n

The new Italian law not only affects heterosexual couples who are unable to have children. More significantly, it makes it practically impossible for a gay family to build a family<\/strong> as they are already barred from adopting\u00a0under Italian law.\u00a0Carolina Morace,<\/strong> MEP of the 5 Star Movement,\u00a0called it “An international embarrassment”\u00a0 and said she wished “the Constitutional Court or the Court of Justice of the EU will soon reject this attack on the freedom of citizens that makes even someone like Orban pale in comparison.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the EU, surrogacy is allowed only in Portugal, Greece, the Netherlands, Cyprus, and Ireland. Now Italy will also prosecute those who use the practice abroad. Morace (M5S): “The Constitutional Court or the EU Court of Justice will soon reject this attack on citizens’ freedom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":398215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26180,26345,29408,26044,26130],"class_list":["post-398289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-elly-schlein-en","tag-gestation-for-others-en","tag-diritti-lgbtq-en","tag-rights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398821,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398289\/revisions\/398821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}