Support for same-sex marriage stands at 59.2 per cent and for the adoption of children by same-sex couples at 50.4 per cent, up from 31.1 per cent four years ago.
The report also found that 58 per cent of Italians are in favour of heterologous fertilisation, or donor insemination, and that 39.5 per cent support surrogacy.
These are hot topics in Italy since the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni instructed city mayors through the local prefectures to stop registering the children of same-sex couples using a procedure based on the transcription into Italian civic registers of the foreign birth certificates of children conceived via surrogacy, which is illegal in Italy, or assisted fertility, which is only available to heterosexual couples.
The centre-right majority on Wednesday rejected amendments presented by the opposition Democratic Party (PD) and +Europa introducing the transcription into civic registers of the birth certificates of children of same-sex couples conceived abroad.
The amendments had been filed in the context of a bill presented by Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party that would prosecute Italians who resort to using surrogate mothers abroad, in countries like Spain and the US where it is legal, making it a “universal crime”.
FdI has said surrogacy is “worse than paedophilia”.
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