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Italy to debate bill that criminalises surrogacy done abroad

FILE PHOTO: An overview of Italy's upper house of Parliament in Rome July 28, 2010. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

Italy's ruling conservative majority wants to prosecute couples who go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy, according to a law that has drawn fire from critics who view it as mainly targeting gay couples.

The bill, which parliament will start debating on Thursday is part of the socially conservative agenda of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a self-declared enemy of what she calls "gender ideology" and "the LGBT lobby".

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