Meanwhile, in Italy
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Italy’s Senate approved legislation Wednesday criminalizing the seeking of surrogacy in other countries by Italian citizens. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni advocated for the policy, which is seen as targeting same-sex couples.
Meloni’s conservative Brothers of Italy party proposed the bill, expanding on two decades of surrogacy denial within the nation’s borders.
The vote was 84-58. It had passed the lower chamber last year, the Washington Post reported.
The crime can be punished with a fine of 1 million euros and up to two years in prison.
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Well, it’s a good way to keep their legislature from having to do anything useful.
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I don't care if gay couples in Italy can travel for surrogacy in order to have children. There are so many problems in the world of so much more consequence. The genocide in Gaza and the West Bank is one and people just ignore it but are upset about identity politics. It's a sorry world full of such privileged and entitled people.
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A student at school had a mother who expatriated to Italy from Chicago to become a marble sculptress. She visited once and told me that Italian men are not very open minded about homosexuality. It's an anecdotal data point but she was a very beautiful, talented, and intelligent woman, and I bet there was some truth in what she said.
Their Prime Minister is, of course, right wing, or very right wing. I don't know much about her.
I know from the few years I spent researching the legal processes related to the murder of Meredith Kercher by Amanda Knox and others that civil society in Italy functions very well but that the country and especially certain parts of it are very corrupt. This corruption notoriously affects the political and judicial systems.
So I'd say this story from what little I know about it doesn't come as a surprise.
