In a legislative first, Turin city
council on Monday registered in the city's births and deaths
registry the son of a lesbian couple who had the boy in Italy
after artificial insemination in Denmark.
The move came in the wake of last week's refusal by the
registry to register the child saying there was a legislative
vacuum, and Mayor Chiara Appendino's subsequent pledge to "force
the issue".
It is the first birth recognition of a child of a same-sex
couple in Italy.
"We have written a page of history," said Appendino.
She said she hoped to have started the process of bringing
the law into line with the "evolution of civic society".
Niccolò Pietri is the son of Chiara Foglietta, deputy
Democratic Party (PD) whip on the city council, and her partner
Micaela Ghisleni, a bioethicist.
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