The supreme Court of
Cassation on Friday okayed the registration of the birth
certificate of a child born with two mothers.
The mothers were a married lesbian couple who subsequently
divorced.
One, an Italian woman, donated the eggs and the other, a
Spaniard, carried the baby and gave birth to him in Spain in
2011.
The supreme court ruled that there was no "Constitutional
ban" on same-sex couples "welcoming and generating children"
even though there is no Italian legislation for such cases.
It upheld a ruling at the Turin court of appeal, which had
ordered the northern city's registry to put the birth
certificate on record.
A lower court had denied permission to register the child
in this way on the grounds that it conflicts with the principle
that the mother is the person who gives birth to a child.
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