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Early life > Surrogacy
Italy recognizes surrogacy as a “universal crime”: symbolic measure or first step towards a global ban?
Author / Source : EIB Published on : Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
On October 16, 2024, the Italian Senate voted to extend the criminalization of surrogate motherhood to include the “crime of surrogate motherhood committed abroad by an Italian citizen”. From now on, Italian nationals who use a surrogate mother abroad will also be liable to a penalty of up to two years' imprisonment and a €1 million fine. By describing surrogacy as a “universal crime”, the Italian senators have expressed their desire for global condemnation of...
The European Parliament lists "the exploitation of surrogate motherhood" as an act of human trafficking
Published on : Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
On 23 April 2024, the European Parliament voted to amend the Directive on human trafficking to include surrogate motherhood among the acts of human trafficking that Member States are obliged to punish. Voted 563 in favour, 7 against and 17 abstentions, the text is still subject to approval by the ministers of the Member States who are part of the Council of the European Union. Given the diversity of European legislation in this area, the question arises as to what impact this will have on...
Surrogate motherhood: in Rome, a large panel of experts calls for an international ban on the practice
Author / Source : IEB Published on : Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 2 min.
The organisation of this conference at the beginning of April 2024 came just a few days before a new meeting of the working group of the International Hague Conference (from 8 to 12 April), whose mandate includes considering the drafting of an international convention on the transnational recognition of filiation resulting from surrogate motherhood. In an open letter published on X, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogacy took the opportunity to reiterate the need to put an...
Olivia Maurel, born through GPA, testifies to the wounds this practice inflicted on her
Author / Source : IEB Published on : Thematic : Early life / Surrogacy News Temps de lecture : 1 min.
"From all my research, I cannot see there is a ‘good’ version of surrogacy," she tells the Daily Mail. Even when the surrogate mother doesn't donate her eggs, the reality remains that "it's a woman's body that's being rented out, and it's a baby who will be separated from its mother at birth", whereas "it's to her that it feels connected". And in countries that prohibit so-called commercial surrogacy, considerable sums of money are nevertheless paid as compensation. Olivia Maurel also cites th...