Using surrogacy shd get 10 yrs in jail says League

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 21 - 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. (ANSA).