Eugenia Maria Roccella[1] (born 15 November 1953)[2] is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been serving as Minister for Family, Natality and Equal Opportunities in the Meloni Cabinet since 22 October 2022.

She also opposes in vitro fertilisation, and in 2013 founded Di mamma ce n'è una sola (There's only one mother), an organisation against surrogacy.

[10] In 2018, Roccella said that she would work to repeal the recognition of same-sex civil unions in Italy, which had been legalised two years earlier.

[11] She opposed the Scalfarotto and Zan bills that supported LGBT rights in Italy, describing the latter as a curb on freedom of expression.

[3] In 2023, Roccella stated that psychologists affirm the need or right for children to have a father and a mother, as opposed to same-sex parents.

[13][14] The government she is part of ordered for Milan city council, led by mayor Giuseppe Sala, to cease registering same-sex couples a legal parents, an action it had practiced since 2018 in the absence of a national law.

[15] Roccella said that the order did not come from legislation but from a Supreme Court of Cassation decision on the matter, which opponent mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri said only applied to registering two mothers in the case of surrogacy.