Surrogacy, or – rather – pregnancy for others (GPA) is above all a huge ethical issue. I am a 43-year-old Italian heterosexual man with no children and no intention of having children in the future: the premise is very necessary, because my lens can only somehow distort what I observe, and in this case an absolutist risks. to be the equivalent – albeit with the opposite sign – of the gruesome positions taken by various Simone Pillon, Fabio Rampelli, Federico Mollicone; even the Minister of Family, Eugenia Roccella, who, like other ex-radicals, is one of the most extreme voices in conservation today and a staunch supporter of a return to a family model more similar to what it was in the 1950s. than in the present, and above all in the near future.

dissidents’ thesis

Every thought on moral matters can only be relative unless expressed by a devotee who confines his certainties to the shortcut of dogma. Let’s get some order. The GPA isn’t just about same-sex couples: in fact, most people who apply for it are heterosexuals who are unable to have children for various reasons. When we speak of this practice using the pejorative expression “womb for rent”, we are doing so mainly to discriminate against “non-traditional” families, to spread the idea that what nature does not allow is not acceptable by law. The thesis of the opponents is that wealthy homosexuals defy the laws of nature and go to “buy” children abroad, choosing the eye and hair color of future children; To do this, they exploit the bodies of poor women for money. More than just a thesis, it’s a good oversimplification to provoke what Umberto Eco calls “legions of imbeciles” against minorities: in some cases, especially in Scandinavian countries, women who get pregnant are relatives or even mothers of women. men applying to the practice; The egg used for IVF can be from the woman who will carry the fetus, the mother-to-be or the donor: in short, we are faced with a number of variables that explain how complex the issue is and how much it should be. roundtable meetings that bring together the most authoritative voices of anthropology, medicine, philosophy and even psychology are the subject of discussion on the upper floors of universities; in short, not the tables of “sports bars” in Italy.

A law that sets boundaries

We need a law that sets limits on surrogacy, fixes the “pillars of Hercules,” but takes into account a fundamental truth: Scientific evolution, which is also a natural process, is incredibly fast, and this is the crux of the matter even today. – the exploitation of the pregnant woman’s body – in the not-too-distant future incubator machines may “replace”: unfortunately this is no longer a science fiction movie scenario. There are many countries that ban GPA today, and Italy is among them, but no law prevents an Italian or an Italian from applying GPA in Portugal, a two-hour flight away, where it is not a crime; therefore there are those who want to make it a “universal crime”: in reality it is another slogan but a little more, because international law makes such an initiative impracticable. The approach to be followed is probably – with all its limitations – very similar to that of other forms of exploitation of the body. Consider prostitution, for example: there is a profound difference between “sex workers” who choose to serve freely in the virtual or real world, and the very young “sex slaves” who are forced to fill the sidewalks of state highways or the sidewalks of many resorts. houses in cities converted into brothels; women reduced to tools of pleasure for many innocent fathers and grandfathers of perfect “traditional families”. Therefore, there are essentially two main issues to be resolved in a good law regulating GPA: the fight against the commodification of the female body, and what could become a dangerous “species selection” with the advancement of science. Faced with something so colossal, one wonders if the current political class is enough to face this challenge: The answer sadly seems pretty obvious.

way of discrimination

To fill a regulatory vacuum that they could not possibly fill because they did not have the necessary cultural tools, the parties in the government chose the path of propaganda and discrimination, which would affect the registration of children already born and born in the civil registry. already embedded in existing family members: a choice that follows the same bankruptcy approach already seen on the front of immigrant flows: creating an imaginary deterrent that solves nothing but influencing innocent people. An enlightened policy, after regulating the GPA, should forcefully encourage alternative forms of parenting to procreation: on an overpopulated planet where a child dies from malnutrition every 15 seconds, making adoptions less impossible for all families and singles would be an important step. : Even the anachronistic motto “children need a mother and a father” vanishes, given the frightening numbers, as needy children are sadly far more numerous than traditional and non-traditional families who can embrace and save them. The problem is, they often have colors that don’t suit those who need to legislate in that sense, but that’s another story.