Federico Mollicone, deputy of Brothers of Italy, the party of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melonihas assured in a television interview that “surrogacy is a more serious crime than pedophilia”, in a statement that adds to those made by other members of the ultra-right party on the subject in recent hours.

“We are faced with people who want to choose a child as the painting of the house,” added Mollicone, who is also president of the Culture Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, on the “La7” channel. Mollicone thus supported the statements of this Sunday of the Minister of Equal Opportunities and Family, Eugenia Roccellawho in another interview on television had assured that “surrogacy is a children’s market” and that supposes “the commodification and slavery of the feminine body”.

“The Mollicone’s words are very serious and they deserve the utmost indignation from everyone. The right-wing campaign for the denial of children’s rights continues to talk about what is not an issue on the table because there is no talk of introducing it in Italy in any way,” replied the deputy of the Five Star Movement (M5S), Chiara Appendino.

Appendino assured that the objective of Brothers of Italy is “change the focus of the debate on surrogacy so as not to admit that they are discriminating against children by denying them rights that are widely recognized in other States”. room, so that discontinue registration as children of same-sex couples to children born abroad by surrogacy.

At the moment in Italy it is possible to register only the biological father or mother while the couple can only adopt the child through a judicial process. This Saturday, hundreds of people protested in the center of the city of Milan (north) after this ban by the right-wing government of Giorgia Meloni and to ask that all children have the same rights in a demonstration that was led by the new opposition leader Democratic Party (PD), Elly Schlein. Hermanos de Italia has presented a bill that provides for surrogacy to become a universal crime.