The legislative proposal, already approved in one chamber of Parliament, to make liable to criminal prosecution an Italian citizen who performs a surrogacy abroad - even if he is not present on the territory of the State - aims to reduce and simplify the ordinary conditions for the extension of the Italian criminal law in space, resulting in a fundamentally unreasonable derogatory regime in malam partem. This geographical dilatation aggravates the already considerable problems of legal certainty caused by the Italian offence, and may be at odds with the principles of legality as well as with the re-educative function of punishment, insofar as it claims to impose a (questionable) Italian ethical-penal choice within socio-legal contexts that do not agree with it at all. Therefore, in this paper possible remedies are explored, both from an interpretative point of view and in relation to possible questions of constitutional legitimacy, e.g. with reference to the claim of a dual criminality check, or to reductive interpretations of the crime, some even capable of excluding intended parents from the list of punishable perpetrators.
La proposta, già approvata in un ramo del Parlamento, di rendere punibile il cittadino italiano che realizzi all’estero una surrogazione di maternità – anche se non presente sul territorio dello Stato – è intesa a ridurre e semplificare le ordinarie condizioni di estensione della legge penale nello spazio, determinando un regime derogatorio in malam partem fondamentalmente irragionevole. Questa dilatazione geografica aggrava i già notevoli problemi di determinatezza della fattispecie, e può porsi in contrasto con i principi di legalità nonché con la funzione rieducativa della pena, nella misura in cui pretende di imporre una (opinabile) scelta etico-penale italiana entro contesti socio-giuridici che non la condividono affatto. Nello studio si sondano, dunque, possibili rimedi, sia in chiave ermeneutica che in funzione di eventuali questioni di costituzionalità, con riferimento ad es. alla pretesa della doppia incriminazione, o a interpretazioni riduttive del tipo criminoso, alcune capaci persino di escludere gli aspiranti genitori dal novero dei soggetti punibili.
La rana che voleva farsi bue e il reato di surrogazione di maternità che voleva farsi universale
Antonio Vallini
2024-01-01
Abstract
The legislative proposal, already approved in one chamber of Parliament, to make liable to criminal prosecution an Italian citizen who performs a surrogacy abroad - even if he is not present on the territory of the State - aims to reduce and simplify the ordinary conditions for the extension of the Italian criminal law in space, resulting in a fundamentally unreasonable derogatory regime in malam partem. This geographical dilatation aggravates the already considerable problems of legal certainty caused by the Italian offence, and may be at odds with the principles of legality as well as with the re-educative function of punishment, insofar as it claims to impose a (questionable) Italian ethical-penal choice within socio-legal contexts that do not agree with it at all. Therefore, in this paper possible remedies are explored, both from an interpretative point of view and in relation to possible questions of constitutional legitimacy, e.g. with reference to the claim of a dual criminality check, or to reductive interpretations of the crime, some even capable of excluding intended parents from the list of punishable perpetrators.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
