Your periodical reminder that the Italian government meets within walking distance from the Vatican.
The linked article frames this as “the Pope obviously hates homosexual couples and doesn’t want them to have children”, but I think this quite misses the point. The Catholic Church has been advocating against IVF since forever, and they don’t care if most surrogacy-seekers are heterosexual couples. According to doctrine it’s morally equivalent to abortion, period.
I’m actually quite surprised that no one else outside Rome has tried to fully ban surrogacy on religious grounds. Is no other government Catholic enough?
Your periodical reminder that the Italian government meets within walking distance from the Vatican.
The linked article frames this as “the Pope obviously hates homosexual couples and doesn’t want them to have children”, but I think this quite misses the point. The Catholic Church has been advocating against IVF since forever, and they don’t care if most surrogacy-seekers are heterosexual couples. According to doctrine it’s morally equivalent to abortion, period.
I’m actually quite surprised that no one else outside Rome has tried to fully ban surrogacy on religious grounds. Is no other government Catholic enough?