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Italy prepares new adoption law including gay couples, opposition firm
Source: Reuters
World | Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:42pm EST
Italy prepares new adoption law including gay couples, opposition firm
ROME
Italy's government is working on a new law on adopting children, to include gay couples, after cutting a controversial adoption provision from a bill on civil unions last week, a prominent minister said on Sunday.
The bill on civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual couples split parliament down religious lines and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stripped out the most controversial clause, which would have allowed unmarried couples some adoption rights.
Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi, a close Renzi ally, told La Repubblica newspaper new legislation would apply to gay couples and single people.
"We are preparing a very complex law which does not only regard adoptions for gay couples," she was quoted as saying.
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Italy prepares new adoption law including gay couples, opposition firm
ROME
Italy's government is working on a new law on adopting children, to include gay couples, after cutting a controversial adoption provision from a bill on civil unions last week, a prominent minister said on Sunday.
The bill on civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual couples split parliament down religious lines and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stripped out the most controversial clause, which would have allowed unmarried couples some adoption rights.
Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi, a close Renzi ally, told La Repubblica newspaper new legislation would apply to gay couples and single people.
"We are preparing a very complex law which does not only regard adoptions for gay couples," she was quoted as saying.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-adoption-idUSKCN0W10V5
