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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Surrogate parents too afraid to return to Italy after ‘procreative tourism’ law

A group of protesters in pink shirts holding pro-surrogacy signs in Italy.
A protest in support of surrogacy in Italy. The banner reads: ‘We are families, not crimes’. Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

The Italian parents of a child who was recently born in the US via surrogacy say they are too afraid to return home since Giorgia Meloni’s government enacted the west’s most restrictive law against what she described as “procreative tourism”.

The gay couple could be among the first Italians to be prosecuted under the law, enacted in early December, which extended an outright ban on domestic surrogacy by making it a universal crime that transcends borders, putting them on a par with terrorists, paedophiles and war criminals.

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