Using surrogate mothers should be
punishable by 4-10 years in jail and a fine of 600,000 to two
million euros, the rightwing League party said in an amendment
filed Friday to Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of
Italy (FdI) party bill that would make surrogacy a "universal
crime", even abroad, hopefully and controversially ending a
practice that is widely used by gay couples in the US, Spain and
other countries.
The League's further stricture against surrogacy includes
punishing the public official who registers the children born
from that practice.
Both Meloni and League leader Matteo Salvini have described the
'babies for sale' practice of paying allegedly vulnerable women
and depriving infants of their natural mothers as "abominable".
The centre-left opposition is fighting the bill.
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