The Italian Constitutional Court allows the child’s birth certificate to register two Mother / Day

The Court concluded that the decisions of the Basic Law did not comply with the decisions of the registry offices on the parents of a single -sex coupled child not to recognize both the biological mother and the woman who agreed to medically assist their partners in pregnancy and to assume parent duties.

Defenders of sexual minority interests congratulated the Italian Constitutional Court as historical and stressed that it reminds politicians that constitutionally « can no longer continue to pretend that we do not exist. »

In turn, the « Life and Family » association condemned the court’s judgment as illogical.

In recent years, only the name of the biological mother, not her partner, began to be recorded at the birth certificates of some Italian cities. In order to gain legitimate rights and responsibility for the child, the child had to be adopted by a non -child.

Such limited parents’ recognition was provided for in the 2004 law. However, at the order of the Ministry of the Interior in 2023, restrictions were re -introduced as part of Prime Minister George Meloni’s right -wing government policy to fight spam and promote traditional family values.

The judgment does not apply to the legality of medically supported fertilization. Italy has strict restrictions on artificial fertilization and surrogation has been banned since 2004. Last year, Italy expanded the ban to impose criminal liability for Italians going abroad to get children through a surrogate mother.