The new law, backed Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, expands on Italy's existing prohibition on domestic surrogacy, so that Italian citizens cannot use women in foreign countries to carry babies who will be legally transferred to them. Surrogacy clients and medical professionals who facilitate the practice abroad face jail time and considerable fines under the new law, which was approved by the Italian Senate 84 to 58 on Wednesday.

Homosexuals have been caught trying to purchase children through surrogacy to abuse them, such as in the case of a US veterinarian arrested in March.

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While Italy's ban sharply distinguishes it from the US, where surrogacy is widely legal, its strong stance accords with that of much of Europe in general: Domestic surrogacy is banned in many European Union countries, including Spain, France, Germany, and Sweden.

Almost a decade ago, the European Parliament condemned surrogate motherhood as "undermin[ing] the human dignity of the woman since her body and its reproductive functions are used as a commodity." 

In April, the European Parliament went so far as to vote to classify "the exploitation of surrogate motherhood" as an act of "human trafficking."

Economist and writer Jennifer Roback Morse has listed a slew of reasons to oppose surrogacy, including the abortion and eugenics often involved, the broken bond between the gestational mother and child and its effects on both, the medical risks for children conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), the exploitation of poor women, and especially "the creation of a market in human beings."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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