(23 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milan, Italy – 22 May 2025
1. Rainbow Families representatives cheering and celebrating the Constitutional Court’s ruling
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 22 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessia Crocini, President of the Italian Rainbow Families Association: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"It’s a historic ruling, it’s a wonderful moment for us, we still can’t believe it. My phone has been blowing up with messages since this morning, I was in a meeting. It’s an overwhelming joy. It’s the first real step towards the recognition of families with same-sex parents in Italy."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milan, Italy – 22 May 2025
3. Mid of a sweater reading (Italian): "It’s love that creates a family"
4. Wide of Rainbow families representatives celebrating in Milan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 22 May 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessia Crocini, President of the Italian Rainbow Families Association: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
"We are not going to stop. It is clear that this is a step forward, an important victory. Today we celebrate and enjoy the joy, but a small part, a large part of this joy is focused on what we must accomplish. Full equality for children born through surrogacy and born to two fathers, they have no less right to be recognized. This is only a first step, but we are not stopping here."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milan, Italy – 22 May 2025
6. Various of Rainbow Families representatives hugging each other
STORYLINE:
Italy’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that two women can register as parents of a child on a birth certificate, saying recognition of parental rights can’t be restricted to the biological mother alone in families with same-sex parents.
The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for city registrars to deprive children born to same sex-parents of recognition by both the biological mother and the woman who consented to the medically assisted pregnancy of her partner and assumed parental responsibilities.
President of the Italian Rainbow Families Association, Alessia Crocini called it a “historic ruling”.
“I may be against a tree, but that tree does not disappear just because I deny its existence. These children still have two mums or two dads or a single LGBTQIA+ parent. Not recognizing the other parent does not make them disappear. They will continue to grow up with two dads or two mums,” she said.
“At last what we have been saying all along is being recognized: boys and girls have the right to see both parents recognized, from birth, even when they are two mothers,” Rainbow Families said in a statement.
The group said the ruling served as a reminder to politicians that constitutionally, it’s “no longer possible to continue pretending that we do not exist”.
The association Pro Life and Family denounced the ruling as illogical and meant thousands of children born to same-sex parents were launched into “an existential joke.”
In recent years, some city registrars had begun to record only the name of the biological mother on birth certificates, and not the name of her partner.
In order to have legal rights and responsibility over the child, the non-biological mother then had to “adopt” the child.
A 2004 law had provided for such limited parental recognition.
The ruling doesn’t address the legality of medically assisted procreation: Italy has strong restrictions on IVF and has had a ban on surrogacy since 2004.
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