Giorgia Meloni, surrogacy and the sins of the Italian left

However, Schlein was born in Switzerland to an American father. in favor Surrogacy, It is a controversial practice rejected by leftist movements and parties in other countries. Melony is aware split caused by argument In public, he had found the Achilles heels of one of his enemies.

divide and conquer

Experienced far-right leader history is more than symbolic for his first attack. Meloni talked about women in a long interview with the magazine ‘Grazia’, which specializes in women’s issues, a few days before March 8, International Women’s Day. Surrogacy in a new way”slaveryThe interview immediately made a huge impact.

“I will never bow to the idea that this is the result of years of work. fights for women’s rights“, the far-right leader explained in the text. “I don’t think so. commercializing the female body and convert maternity The famous divide-and-conquer tactic was adopted by Meloni, but the custom civil war about to be released in Italian progressivism was still under construction.

In April, Schlein finally elected members of the Political Secretariat. And within this body, including alessandro zana representative of the LGTBI+ community in the past historical feminists (also called radicals in Italy)”retroactive“, because of his unconventional stance surrogate bellies and his doubts about the so-called gender ideology.

afraid to speak

On the 19th of that month, Schlein clarified his position on the matter. The young politician said: There was no consensus within PD about surrogacy, but she added that she “always” favors it. approximately in parallel 100 italian feminists Schlein was asked to rule against it, and the matter was settled with resolution. tremendous pressure to groups lesbianssome suffered internal divisions and were left out of the discussion.

Other women also started not wanting to pronounce for the subject fear To be connected with Melony. “I am a leftist, an atheist, and I believe that surrogacy turns woman into an object and birth into a mode of production. But unfortunately. I can not speak“One of the country’s leaders in those days wrote: lesbian movement to this journalist

universal crime

melonHe decided for himself double your bet. While his government had difficulties in accessing European funds from the post-Covid recovery plan, he diverted the public debate with a very opportunistic announcement. your party, brothers from Italy (FDI for its acronym in Italian) has announced its intention to reactivate some of the older offerings. Tighten Italian legislation Surrogacy is already illegal in Italy.

So, in May, the debate moved to Parliament with a bill. Carolina VarchiHe is a prominent abortionist of the IDF, who has proposed to ban Italians from applying for surrogacy abroad as well. Varchi remembered this 2004 law already required three months to two years in prison and fines of up to one million euros, but that hasn’t stopped some from applying to practice in countries where surrogacy is allowed.

However, surrogacy is a “thinking idea”universal crime“as in the case war crimes. The discussion then spread to the Italian press more intensely. so much that even Matteo Salvini, The leader of the league and Meloni’s partner started talking about it. ” women are not for hireChildren are not bought,” Salvini said again last week.

angular

The arguments of various lawyers did not help much. skeptical about possibilities For the FDI law to move towards parliament. Even intellectuals started talking about it. Some, like the ex-constitutional judge Gustavo Zagrebelskithey branded it as “discrimination“ For kids born from surrogacy. Zagrebelsky said this was because Meloni’s party’s proposal included that anyone trying to register these minors on the public records would essentially denounce themselves.

Since that time, Meloni and her associates have repeatedly attacked PD on this issue. On the basis of progressive formation, especially in Catholic wing of the partyvery contrary to any acceptance of proxies. This coincided with the decline in support for PD.