Wow! I didn't know surrogacy was illegal in Italy because I feel like it's so common here. I looked it up and both commercial (the woman carrying the child gets extra money) and altruistic (the woman is just reimbursed for hospital fees and such) are illegal in Italy. I kinda understand where the woman is coming from honestly...She feels like she needs to protect herself because she is worried that she could be arrested. Everyone would be able to tell the mixed race baby wasn't hers. While the article phrases it so it's like this racist is giving up a baby cause the baby's not white, I think it's more complicated than that. -Cara Schwab
Reading this was shocking news to me. I found an online source that claimed these laws against surrogacy are among the most strict prohibitions in Europe, which were said to stem from the views and heavy influences of the Catholic Church. The news article mentioned that the Italian mother, who suffered not one, but two past miscarriages, had an ex-husband who was in prison. With regards to the information I found on VittoriaVita's cite, this bit interesting because I read that IVF is completely legal, but is only permitted for married spouses. While I'm not sure how this helps the case at hand, allowing IVF provides married infertile men to have children. -Ilya Pound
Wow! I didn't know surrogacy was illegal in Italy because I feel like it's so common here. I looked it up and both commercial (the woman carrying the child gets extra money) and altruistic (the woman is just reimbursed for hospital fees and such) are illegal in Italy. I kinda understand where the woman is coming from honestly...She feels like she needs to protect herself because she is worried that she could be arrested. Everyone would be able to tell the mixed race baby wasn't hers. While the article phrases it so it's like this racist is giving up a baby cause the baby's not white, I think it's more complicated than that.
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Reading this was shocking news to me. I found an online source that claimed these laws against surrogacy are among the most strict prohibitions in Europe, which were said to stem from the views and heavy influences of the Catholic Church. The news article mentioned that the Italian mother, who suffered not one, but two past miscarriages, had an ex-husband who was in prison. With regards to the information I found on VittoriaVita's cite, this bit interesting because I read that IVF is completely legal, but is only permitted for married spouses. While I'm not sure how this helps the case at hand, allowing IVF provides married infertile men to have children.
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