Prosecutors in Padua, a city in northern Italy, have started correcting birth certificates for children born to two mothers. Gay marriage is not recognized in the country and therefore the law does not allow the name of a person who is not the birth mother or father to appear on the certificate. In the case of homosexual couples, only the name of one couple may appear on the certificate.
The correction is being made in Padua because the leftwing city government under Sergio Giordani started in 2017, for lack of a law, to authorize the registration of children born to lesbian mothers. The birth certificate is the responsibility of the municipality.
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In Padua alone, 33 children are registered with the names of two mothers and so far 27 certificates have been corrected, local prosecutors told CNN. According to the broadcaster, these children were conceived through artificial insemination carried out abroad, since “surrogacy” is forbidden in Italy.
And birth mothers were able To the children with the help of Giordani, who campaigned to eliminate the “traditional designations of mother and father” from birth certificates.
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As the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Since taking office in November last year, the Italian government has decided that registrations in the name of two mothers or two fathers should no longer be made, as the country’s legislation prohibits the practice.
Faced with criticism from the LGBT community, Family Minister Eugenia Roccella said that “there is no discrimination against children”. She also told the Italian parliament that the children of gay couples have access to school and medical care, just like children whose parents have only one parent.
Padua is the first city in Italy Retroactively annul birth certificates bearing the names of samesex parents. In late June, around 300 women took part in a demonstration outside Padua’s Palace of Justice after a prosecutor said the birth certificates of 33 children of lesbian couples were illegal.
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In March, Giorgia Meloni’s government also introduced legislation to extend a nationwide ban on surrogacy to couples using the services abroad. If passed, anyone violating the law could face a twoyear prison sentence and a fine of more than $1 million.
The law has not yet been debated in Parliament and has been criticized by the population. LGBTalthough it also reaches heterosexual couples using surrogacy services abroad.