Over 50 Italian couples are set to
lodge legal appeals against the government's new law making
surrogacy a universal crime, even when used by Italians abroad,
the civil rights and right-to-die Associazione Luca Coscioni
told ANSA after Saturday's news that the bill will come out in
the Official Gazette on Monday.
"We are ready to defend all couples damaged by this unjust and
unreasonable law," said the association's leaders Marco Cappato
and Filomena Gallo.
"We will take our and their battle to the courts and to every
appropriate venue, with the aim of re-establishing an
opportunity offered by science, which a blind and brutal
legislation seeks to condemn as a universal crime.
"There are already over 50 couples from all over Italy who have
turned to the legal team of the Luca Coscioni Association,
worried about the consequences that this law could have on their
family project".
President Sergio Mattarella's signing he bill into law was "not
surprising" since he has already signed other bills "in flagrant
contrast with European norms like that on lab-grown meat which
was later annulled by the EU, said Cappato and Gallo.
The 50 couples, they said, are "couples who have just started
the process, who have only signed the consent form in a foreign
center or who have already had their gametes collected."
Surrogacy is already regulated in 66 countries, they said.
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