In a ruling that is set to mark a crucial step in the protection of minors' rights, the Constitutional Court today recognized the right of children born in Italy to homosexual couples through heterologous fertilization to have two mothers .
The mayor of Cagliari Massimo Zedda promptly intervened on the Constitutional Court's decision, announcing the Municipality's commitment to comply with the ruling: "The ruling of the Constitutional Court marks an important change of pace in the sphere of rights. In this case, a couple of mothers who have had a child with medically assisted procreation abroad are protected, according to the regulations in force in that state. The regulatory vacuum remains for those who conceive in Italy, and the same is also true for single women."
"Already during my first term - continues the mayor - we have sided in favor of rights. Politics can and must intervene, for this reason we will comply with the ruling of the Constitutional Court that will allow homoparental couples to recognize the status of child/daughter of both parents through the correct registration in the civil status registers ".
Satisfaction also from the Progressive Party of the City of Cagliari, according to which what was established by the Consulta is «the recognition of a right for which our council groups have worked carefully, already in the past years, with political acts and questions». «Now following the sentence n. 68 of the Constitutional Court, children born thanks to PMA carried out abroad, will have two mothers and can be registered in the registry as children of both».
The Court highlighted the current impossibility for children born to homosexual couples with assisted fertilization abroad to obtain from birth the legal status of children recognized also by the non-biological mother. This, according to the judges, constitutes a violation of the interest of the minor and of the fundamental principles established by the Italian Constitution.
(Unioneonline/vf)
