On 19 June, the bill will come to the Chamber – as reformulated by the Chamber’s Justice Commission – which stipulates that surrogacy is a universal crime, that is, a crime for which Italian nationals who seek pregnancy for others abroad will be prosecuted.
All the changes submitted by the 5 Star Movement were rejected: “Italy is in the hands of an irresponsible majority who tramples on people’s rights and corporate responsibility to pursue their ideological anger,” say lawmakers at the M5S Justice Commission. Camera Stefania Ascari, Federico Cafiero De Raho, Valentina D’Orso and Carla Giuliano.
Amendments by Riccardo Magi (+Europe) aimed at decriminalizing pregnancy (GPA) for others were also rejected and the fine was reduced from 600,000 to one million euros, and the Democratic Party voted against.
With the text reformulated in this way, the penalty was expanded to cover virtually all acts committed abroad: “By halting reproductive tourism and the emerging market more generally, it will deter resorting to this practice”, the bill’s rapporteur, the deputy explains. Sisters of Italy Carolina Varchi.
However, in the current form of the law, it could have a real paradoxical effect, as +European MP Riccardo Magi explained: “The reformulation of the text with the amendment by the majority seeks to patch the anomaly of the punitive claim. Italy for an act committed in a country where pregnancy is legal for others. foreign national, maybe jointly, but it continues to be legal nonsense. Therefore, with his reformulation, the Canadian doctor who came to Italy on vacation with the child he gave birth to with GPA, but the Italian doctor who also had a child with GPA in Canada was arrested and left his family in Italy. came back to see it”.
Source: Today IT
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