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Washington Post
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Italian court grants parental rights to same-sex couples who use IVF abroad
Italy's constitutional court ruled Thursday that partners in same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization abroad can both be legally recognized as parents. LGBTQ rights advocates welcomed the decision as a narrow win, in a country where same-sex couples face a concerted push by the ruling conservative government to keep them from becoming parents.
Telegraph
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Meloni dealt blow by court's lesbian mothers ruling
Italy's highest court ruled on Thursday that two women can register as the parents of a child on a birth certificate, saying recognition of parental rights cannot be restricted to the biological mother in families with same-sex parents. The ruling was hailed as 'historic' by opposition parties in Italy and a blow to Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister and a self-declared 'Christian mother'. The far-Right leader, whose government told city halls to stop automatically registering both parents in same-sex couples, has railed against the 'LGBT lobby' and says she defends traditional family values in the majority-Catholic country. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for city registers to deprive children born to same sex-parents of recognition by both the biological mother and the woman who consented to the medically assisted pregnancy and assumed parental responsibilities. It 'ruled as discriminatory the failure to recognise both mothers' on birth certificates, a decision which 'effectively becomes law', lawyer Michele Giarratano told AFP news agency. In recent years, some city registrars had begun to record only the name of the biological mother on birth certificates, and not the name of her partner. In order to have legal rights and responsibility over the child, the non-biological mother then had to 'adopt' the child. A 2004 law had provided for such limited parental recognition, and encouraged by several court rulings, mayors have in recent years been registering both biological and non-biological parents on birth certificates. But in 2023, Ms Meloni's interior minister ordered town halls to stop transcribing certificates of children born abroad through surrogacy. In response, prosecutors across Italy began contesting birth certificates of children born abroad or in Italy to same-sex parents – whether through surrogacy or by other means. Non-biological mothers risked losing access to their children if their partner died or the relationship broke down, as well as suffering day-to-day stresses such as not being able to take their child to a doctor without the other parent's permission. 'A historic decision' The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that refusing to recognise women who assume parental responsibility for the child their partner carries 'does not guarantee the best interests of the minor' and violates several articles in the constitution. That included the child's right to a continuous relationship with each parent and with relatives from each parent's branch of the family, it said. 'This is a historic decision,' said Mr Giarratano, from Padua in north-eastern Italy. He represents 15 children in Padua, where an instruction by prosecutors to retroactively remove non-biological mothers from birth certificates turned the city into a symbol of the fight for same-sex parents' rights. Elly Schlein, head of the biggest opposition party, the centre-Left Democratic Party (PD), said the 'historic' ruling was 'a heavy political defeat' for a hard-Right coalition government which has 'used rainbow families as a political target'. Mother Soldatini, 48, said it 'cannot just be the legal system which recognises these children have a right to a family, politicians must now take the necessary step' to protect the rights of all children with same-sex parents. 'I will only uncork the champagne when all those families with two dads can toast with me,' she said. 'Now is not the time to settle.' Activists have warned of an erosion of civil rights since Ms Meloni took office in 2022, including the extension last year of the country's ban on surrogacy to couples who seek it abroad – a law which affects gay fathers in particular. On Thursday, a court in Pesaro in northern Italy ruled in favour of the adoption of a child by his non-biological father, despite the child being conceived abroad via surrogacy.
Washington Post
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Italy's court says 2 mothers can register as parents on birth certificates
ROME — Italy's Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that two women can register as parents of a child on a birth certificate, saying recognition of parental rights cannot be restricted to the biological mother in families with same-sex parents. Advocates for LGBTQ+ rejoiced at the ruling, while the association Pro Life and Family denounced it as sending thousands of children born to same-sex parents into 'an existential joke.'
Associated Press
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
Italy's court says 2 mothers can register as parents on birth certificates
ROME (AP) — Italy's Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that two women can register as parents of a child on a birth certificate, saying recognition of parental rights cannot be restricted to the biological mother in families with same-sex parents. Advocates for LGBTQ+ rejoiced at the ruling, while the association Pro Life and Family denounced it as sending thousands of children born to same-sex parents into 'an existential joke.' The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for city registers to deprive children born to same sex-parents of recognition by both the biological mother and the woman who consented to the medically assisted pregnancy and assumed parental responsibilities. In recent years, some city registrars had begun to record only the name of the biological mother on birth certificates, and not the name of her partner. In order to have legal rights and responsibility over the child, the non-biological mother then had to 'adopt' the child. A 2004 law had provided for such limited parental recognition. But thanks to an Interior Ministry circular in 2023, the restrictions were being enforced anew as part of the policy of the far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni to crack down on surrogacy and promote traditional family values. The ruling does not address the legality of medically assisted procreation: Italy has strong restrictions on IVF and has had a ban on surrogacy since 2004. Last year Italy expanded the ban to criminalize Italians who go abroad to have children through surrogacy.
