Nearly 7 in 10 Italians - 67.9% - are
in favor of euthanasia, 68.8% support living wills and 50% look
favourably on assisted suicide, up from 39.4% in 2019, according
to the Italy Report 2023 presented by Eurispes on Wednesday.
Support for same-sex marriage stands at 59.2% and for the
adoption of children by same-sex couples at 50.4%, up from 31.1%
four years ago.
The report also found that 58% of Italians are in favour of
heterologous fertilisation, or donor insemination, and that
39.5% support surrogacy - hot topics in Italy since the
right-wing government of Premier Giorgia Meloni instructed city
mayors through the local prefectures to stop registering the
children of same-sex couples using a procedure based on the
transcription into Italian civic registers of the foreign birth
certificates of children conceived via surrogacy, which is
illegal in Italy, or assisted fertility, which is only available
to heterosexual couples here.
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