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INTERCEPTED: Italian couple prevented from leaving Buenos Aires with baby born to surrogate Photo credit: CC/npo80 Two Italian males were arrested at Buenos Aires airport on October 25 as they tried to leave Argentina with a baby born to a “rent-a-womb” mother. Suspicions were first aroused on October 23 when an 18-year-old woman, whose identity […]
Maria Sole Giardini was campaigning outside the Italian parliament in 2021 for surrogacy to be legalised when she encountered Giorgia Meloni. The current prime minister’s Brothers of Italy party, in opposition at the time, was frantically drumming up support for a bill to extend Italy’s outright ban on domestic surrogacy by making it a universal […]
Italy criminalized citizens going abroad to have children through surrogacy, a measure slammed by opponents as “medieval” and discriminatory to same-sex couples. What do you think? “So should I just keep this baby now?” Libby Valdez, Proprietor “Eh, I know a guy.” Ross McCrae, Synthesizer Programmer “Oh, I just assumed the newborn got lost in […]
Italy’s parliament has made it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy – a pet project of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s party that activists say is meant to target same-sex partners. Since taking office in 2022, Meloni has pursued a highly conservative social agenda, looking to promote what she […]