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Italy expands its ban on surrogacy to overseas, a move critics say targets same-sex couples

Same-sex parent advocates say it hits gay families particularly hard in a country struggling with record-low birthrates and where only heterosexual couples are allowed to adopt.

By Giada Zampano and Paolo Santalucia, Associated PressPeople hold banners reading"we are families not crimes" during a pro-surrogacy flash-mob in Rome, April 5, 2024. The Senate after a seven-hour debate passed the bill 84-58, the final step in the process after the Lower House’s approval last year. Same-sex marriages are also banned in Italy, and LGBTQ+ couples have been fighting to obtain parental rights for the partner who is not the biological parent.

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