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fascinating stories that are really in your lane. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this.

Well, this is, you know, we get great stories almost every week here. This is pretty

good stuff. Well, let's jump into this first one.

In the New York Times and the way they frame it is very, very telling.

We'll comment on that.

But it's about how this new Italy law criminalizes surrogacy from abroad.

And here's what it says. So reportedly, just this Wednesday,

it'll be passed a law that criminalizes seeking surrogacy abroad.

Now in the Rooter's article they said it's up to a two-year jail term and 1 million euros

which is close to about a million dollars roughly a little bit more

now the article says it's already surrogacy is already illegal in Italy but the

government of the current prime minister has vowed to broaden the ban to punish Italians

who seek it in countries where it's legal such as parts of the United States.

We also discovered that not only Italy,

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