The legislation extends a surrogacy ban already in place in Italy since 2004 to those who go to countries such as the United States or Canada, imposing jail terms of up to two years and fines of up to 1 million.
We want to uproot the phenomenon of surrogacy tourism. Motherhood is absolutely unique, it absolutely cannot be surrogated and it is the foundation of our civilisation, said Brothers of Italy senator Lavinia Mennuni.
If someone has a baby, they should be given a medal. Here instead you are sent to jail if you don't have children in the traditional way, said LGBTQ rights activist Franco Grillini.
Earlier this year, Meloni called surrogacy an inhuman practice that treated children as supermarket products, echoing a position expressed by the Catholic church.
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