Italy erases the names of gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates

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Heartbreaking crackdown against same-sex parents and surrogacy led by its ultra-conservative woman PM.

  • Right-wing Italy government attempting to crack down on same-sex parenting
  • Prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s disapproves of LGBT+ couples raising children 

The shock news arrived without warning in January: Michela Leidi was being officially cancelled as the mother of her daughter on the infant’s birth certificate.

‘I cried for ten days when I opened the letter,’ said Michela, 38, who lives on the outskirts of Bergamo, a city in northern Italy, near the Swiss border. ‘It was as if I did not exist.’

Michela and her 35-year-old wife Viola are among the first targets of the Right-wing Italian government’s attempt to crack down on same-sex parenting and surrogacy, imposing its ‘conservative moral values’ in the country.

Prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition disapproves of LGBT+ couples raising children together and says the country’s laws do not allow children to have two mothers.

Michela and Viola’s daughter was one of the first three children born to lesbian couples whose birth certificates are being altered to delete one mother. Scores more are being targeted across the country.

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