Italy’s gay civil union debate started early Thursday (21 January) with proposals to jail couples who use surrogates abroad.
Catholic senators from the ruling Democratic Party tabled an
amendment to the draft law with punishments of up to two years
imprisonment and fines of up to one million euros.
Judges would also have the right to put children conceived this way from into care and up for adoption.
‘We want wombs-for-rent to become a universal crime, which is punished with a jail term. Just as happens for sex crimes,’ Italy’s interior Minister said last week.
Surrogacy is illegal in Italy.
‘This is indecent. A law intended to recognize rights cannot be transformed into a criminalizing one that talks about prison,’ Gabriele Piazzoni, national secretary of LGBTI group Arcigay, told AFP.
The civil unions bill will be debated in the Senate from 28 January and other amendments are expected to be tabled before the Friday deadline.
Italy is the last major country in Western Europe to neither recognize gay marriage or civil unions.
Previous civil union bills have been blocked in the Senate by thousands of amendments from the opposition.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had promised by the end of 2015 but coalition infighting has stalled progress.
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Judges would also have the right to put children conceived this way from into care and up for adoption.
‘We want wombs-for-rent to become a universal crime, which is punished with a jail term. Just as happens for sex crimes,’ Italy’s interior Minister said last week.
Surrogacy is illegal in Italy.
‘This is indecent. A law intended to recognize rights cannot be transformed into a criminalizing one that talks about prison,’ Gabriele Piazzoni, national secretary of LGBTI group Arcigay, told AFP.
The civil unions bill will be debated in the Senate from 28 January and other amendments are expected to be tabled before the Friday deadline.
Italy is the last major country in Western Europe to neither recognize gay marriage or civil unions.
Previous civil union bills have been blocked in the Senate by thousands of amendments from the opposition.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had promised by the end of 2015 but coalition infighting has stalled progress.
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