Minister Roccella: “Today motherhood is threatened, even by the rented uterus”

“Today is Mother’s Day. A day that concerns each of us, without differences: we were all born of a man and a woman, and this is what makes us equal in diversity. We are all children, raised in the protective womb of a mother who allowed us to come into the world. Thanks to the mothers, therefore, to the women who express their motherhood in a thousand ways, even when, by choice or by the circumstances of life, they do not have children of their own, but who always know how to devote energy and intelligence to care, and to others”. Minister Eugenia Roccella writes it on Facebook.

«Today motherhood is threatened in many ways – she adds – by a culture that has forgotten its social value, by an organization of work that often penalizes it, by urban times and spaces that do not facilitate it, and finally by a global market in which oocytes can be sold and the uterus can be rented, as if the female body were a simple consumer good. Instead, we want to go back to giving value to motherhood, and to recognize the precious work that women give to the entire community when they bring a child into the world and help it grow. Thanks to the mothers, to all the mothers, for what they do, and for who they are».

These are words that will cause discussion and follow those spoken a few days ago in an interview with La Stampa. «Why not call the GPA surrogate uterus? The truth is that we want to disguise the fundamental point and that is the passage of money and the contract”, underlined the minister who then reiterated: “It is a market relationship”.