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| Italy Strips Some Gay Couples of Parental Recognition |
| 2023-04-26 |
| [WSJ] "I cried all my tears," said Ms. Leidi, a 38-year-old education worker from Bergamo in northern Italy. "I never missed a scan, from the moment she was conceived to the moment she was born. Yet it’s as though I don’t exist," she said. She is now trying to adopt Giulia, a tortuous path in Italy. The crackdown on birth certificates is part of a broader campaign against same-sex parenthood led by Ms. Meloni, who has frequently spoken out against what she calls "the LGBTQ lobby" and in defense of Christian family values. At the same time, her government has sought to keep its right-wing voters happy with hard-line stances on immigration, gay rights and national identity. Recently, her party colleagues have railed against the creeping use of English words in Italian, proposing fines for "Anglomania." The use of surrogate mothers is a crime "more serious than pedophilia," said prominent party lawmaker Federico Mollicone, sparking a firestorm. |
| Posted by:Cleared Cookies Lost Nic |
| #2 Women are not baby machines! The Buttgigs: |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-04-26 12:47 |
| #1 I am not sure how a surrogate mom is worse than the kid lovers. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-26 12:39 |