With 166 votes in favor and 109 against, Italy reaffirms its "no" to gestational surrogacy, also known simply as surrogacy. Which, in reality, has been illegal in our country since 2004, but which, with the bill first signed by Fratelli d'Italia delegate Carolina Varchi, the majority seeks to make a universal crime, meaning punishable even if committed abroad. Currently, the law on assisted reproduction states that "anyone who realizes, organizes, or advertises surrogacy in any form is punished with imprisonment ranging from three months to two years and a fine ranging from 600,000 to one million euros." In recent months, however, the government had already halted the transcription of same-sex families' birth certificates for the municipality. The opposition to the universality of the crime was taken for granted; less obvious - instead - were the frictions recorded within the same oppositions, which came to be created on the basis of an amendment by PiùEuropa: the case, provided for regulating gestational surrogacy, allowing it in the absence of exploitation and profit. The text, which was rejected by the majority, also divided the opposition: the Democratic Party did not vote, M5S abstained, and Alleanza Verdi Sinistra voted in favor but its leader, Luana Zanella, said she was opposed.
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