Roccella on Mother’s Day: “Today motherhood is threatened by the surrogate womb”

Take advantage of Mother’s Day to launch a new attack on the surrogate uterus. This is what the Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities did Eugenia Rockella, who celebrated today’s date with a post on Facebook by railing against surrogacy and the children of gay couples. “Today is Mother’s Day. A day that concerns each of us, without differences: we are 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”, writes the exponent of the Brothers of Italy.

And then he talks about the surrogate womb. “Today motherhood is threatened in many ways – writes Roccella – by a culture that has forgotten its social value, by an organization of work that often penalizes it, by times and urban spaces that do not facilitate it, and finally by a market world in which oocytes can be sold and the uterus can be rented, as if the female body were a simple consumer good. We – she concludes – instead want to go back to giving value to motherhood, and to recognize the precious work that women give to the whole community when they bring a child into the world and raise it”.

But more attacks are coming from the government. To point the finger at surrogacy is also Matthew Salvini. The League has in fact launched a campaign to collect signatures to make the rented uterus a universal crime: “The bodies of women and children are commodified”.