Surrogate motherhood 'ultraprostitution'

(ANSA) - Rome, February 3 - Surrogate motherhood is "ultraprostitution', Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said Wednedsay, reiterating her opposition to a bill on civil unions for same-sex partners that envisages the adoption by one partner of the biological child of the other. Lorenzin, a member of the New Centre Right (NCD) party, said "we have reached ultraprostitution, and all attempts at regulating it must be denounced without hypocrisy". She reaffirmed the NCD's contention that so-called stepchild adoption spelled "the legitimisation of surrogate motherhood and donating sperms and eggs". The NCD is at odds with its senior government partner, the Democratic Party (PD) over the bill proposed by the PD's Monica Cirinnà.