“No to exploitation” –

The Senate Justice Committee has approved the bill presented by Fratelli d’Italia that introduces the universal crime of surrogate motherhood. The commissioners have given the rapporteur, Susanna Campione of FdI, the mandate to report to the Chamber. All the amendments to the text approved by the Chamber a year ago were rejected. Now the conference of Group Leaders of Palazzo Madama will have to establish the timetable for its arrival in the Chamber. If the proposal were to complete the process and become law, it would mean that Italian law would also be applied abroad and it would no longer be possible to resort to the practices provided for abroad even for Italian citizens.

The news was commented by Eugenia Roccella, Minister for Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities, who said she was satisfied with the Senate Justice Committee’s approval of the bill: “Italy confirms itself as a nation at the forefront on the rights front, once morest new forms of exploitation of women and children. We defend the right of children to their origins, the right of women not to be exploited and commodified, the protection of the relationships of solidarity and free will on which the cohesion of our society is based”.

“The approval in the Senate Justice Committee of the bill presented by FdI and already approved by the Chamber that considers surrogate motherhood a universal crime is an extremely positive fact”, stated instead the co-president of the ECR group in the European Parliament Nicola Procaccini, of Fratelli d’Italia. “It strengthens respect for women and reaffirms the opposition to any form of commodification of children. It is a secular and fair law that has also had an important echo in the Catholic world and that places a limit on an inhuman practice that cannot be considered a right”, he added.