A post shared on X claims that Italy banned same-sex coupled from becoming parents.

🚨BREAKING NEWS

🇮🇹Italy has banned same-sex couples from becoming parents. pic.twitter.com/PoLvWYMQQ2

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) October 16, 2024

Verdict: False

Italy’s parliament made it illegal for its citizens to travel abroad for surrogacy services, according to Reuters. The new law is an extension of an existing ban on surrogacy services within the country.

A post made on X claims that Italy’s new law bans same-sex couples from becoming parents. The caption reads, “🚨BREAKING NEWS Italy has banned same-sex couples from becoming parents.”

The claim is false. No reputable sources have reported that Italy has placed a complete ban on same-sex couples becoming parents. Instead, the recent Italian law places a ban on surrogacy services only. The new law applies to all Italian couples, including same-sex couples.

Same-sex Italian couples are still allowed to adopt children under certain circumstances. In 2021, the Court of Cassation confirmed a decision the Court of Appeal of Milan made to recognize adoptions that homosexual couples carried out abroad.

Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, made a post on X following the Italian senate’s 84-58 approval of the bill. (RELATED: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Didn’t Say Russia Would Be Forced To Surrender)

Con l’approvazione definitiva di oggi al Senato, il ddl che rende l’utero in affitto reato universale è finalmente legge. Una norma di buonsenso contro la mercificazione del corpo femminile e dei bambini. La vita umana non ha prezzo e non è merce di scambio.

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) October 16, 2024

“With today’s final approval in the Senate, the bill that makes surrogate motherhood a universal crime is finally law. A common sense rule against the commodification of the female body and children. Human life has no price and is not a commodity,” Melonis’s tweet reads in English, which Check Your Fact translated using Google Translate.

Check Your Fact has reached out to the President of the Council of Ministers’s office for comment.