A group of Catholic members
of Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) on Wednesday
filed an amendment extending the punishment against surrogate
parenthood to Italians who engage in this procedure abroad. The
amendment was presented to a bill regulating civil unions,
including same-sex ones, which some Catholic members of the
centre-right party oppose. The amendment states that "anyone
who, in order to become mother or father, uses the practice of
surrogate maternity is punished with a prison term of from three
months to two years and with a fine of from 600,000 euros to one
million euros". The amendment adds that Italians who have
children overseas are obliged to swear that the birth came about
without the used of surrogate maternity.
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