On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a brief order declining to intervene in a custody dispute involving a California couple and the surrogate mother they had hired, who refused their request for an abortion after the unborn baby was...
The Government of Italy, in collaboration with the Holy See, Chile, and Cameroon, convened a high-level side event on surrogacy at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 22. Representatives of the participating states presented a joint declaration...
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (UN), issued a statement calling for the complete eradication of surrogacy, a practice that Catholic teaching deems incompatible with “respect for the...
On the ballot on Tuesday will be the pro-abortion Amendment 3, which seeks to enshrine a right to abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in the Missouri Constitution. However, the amendment goes further than just allowing abortion at any time for any reason....
The Italian Senate of the Republic on Wednesday passed a bill making it possible to prosecute surrogacy sought even outside Italy, with violators potentially facing both prison time and a fine as high as 1 million euros (more than $1 million). Surrogacy has been...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is a Catholic, has urged her country’s Parliament to pass legislation that would make it a crime for Italians to procure surrogate parenting abroad. Currently, surrogacy is only illegal when done within Italy’s borders and...