Surrogacy is banned in Italy, but the government of Georgia Meloni is now trying to go further: outlawing the practice of having babies through surrogacy abroad. This will likely have an outsized impact on members of the LGBTQ community, which many believe is the point.
After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son crying in their laps, an Italian couple gathered their infant's American birth certificate from the overhead compartment, got his American passport stamped and found friends and neighbours cheering with celebratory balloons outside their Milan apartment.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo.