He called the bill for same-sex couples “balanced”. the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadisemphasizing that he had expressed to the prime minister his opposition to the surrogate mother, as he does not want “the woman to become a reproduction machine”.

In his statements to ERT, Mr. Georgiadis said that informing the “blue” MPs about the bill in question had an effect, as “those who were concerned received answers”. “At New Democracy there is no bill that the responsible minister does not go to Piraeus and meet all the MPs to inform about the bill he is bringing,” he said.

“We will prove in the bill for same-sex couples how solid the New Democracy Parliamentary Group is,” he emphasized and added that “gay marriage was our pre-election commitment.”

“I hear the argument of someone saying ‘I don’t want a gay couple raising a child.’ I hear it as an argument, I don’t accept it, I consider it a wrong argument. Also, I want to make it clear that I consider extremely homophobic and unacceptable the statement made yesterday by the PASOK member of parliament on ERT that if these children grow up they will turn them into homosexuals. It’s like saying that people will do something bad to the children they take. This is unacceptable, blatantly homophobic. And I expected it PASOK the same today to have condemned it as a statement. Children can become heterosexual from a homosexual couple, just like homosexual children can be born from a heterosexual couple. These views are also unscientific, unsightly and homophobic,” he said about the positions that have been heard.

Regarding the former prime minister’s statements Antonis Samaras he said characteristically: “I do not comment on any statement of Samara for reasons of respect. Antonis Samaras has full freedom of speech in ND”.

The health minister also said that “I had informed the prime minister that I want to see if he will have the surrogate in. I don’t want to see woman become a reproductive machine. I do not like this. But as for the children who are making a big fuss, I believe that the law now being proposed greatly improves their present position. Today a single man or a single woman can adopt a child. The adoption check will be done on the one person who goes to adopt, while after the marriage is approved, the adoption check will be on both parents.”

He added: “The abstention, since the prime minister himself indicated it as an escape route for the possibility of someone not voting for the bill and not causing a problem in Parliamentary group and in the government, it is obviously a decent attitude. After all, it is not unprecedented. Abstention is a common parliamentary attitude.”

“The bill is balanced and unites Greece with Western countries”, the minister underlined, while commenting on PASOK’s stance, he said: “The statement of the member of Lesvos of PASOK is shameful”, while regarding the reading of the “yes” by the president of SYRIZA-PS , Stefanou Kasselakis, Mr. Georgiadis described them as “a big step forward”.