Criticism comes from Madrid about the amendment to the Pnrr bill, which foresees the participation in counseling centers of “third sector subjects with qualified experience in supporting motherhood” and thus includes pro-life associations opposed to abortion. The debate has crossed national borders so much that Spanish Equality Minister Ana Redondo launched a scathing critique of the Italian government’s ruling on the inclusion of third sector organizations supporting motherhood in advice centres. “Allowing organized repression against women who want to terminate a pregnancy means undermining a right granted by law. This is the strategy of the far right: threatening to take away rights, preventing equality between men and women,” the Spanish minister writes in X (ex-Twitter).
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s reaction was very harsh. “Many times I have listened to foreign ministers talking about Italy’s internal problems without knowing the facts. Normally, when you are ignorant about a subject, you should at least have the decency not to lecture,” the head of government told ANSA. Before heading to the reception of King Philippe of Belgium in Brussels.
Family Minister Eugenia Roccella was no exception. “I propose that representatives of other countries base their views on reading the texts, and not on the propaganda of the Italian left, which claims to be defenders of the law but does not know its contents or pretends not to know it. An amendment that serves no purpose other than repeating exactly one article of the abortion law that has been in force for 46 years.”
The conflict moves to the Montecitorio Assembly, which rejects the agenda presented by the M5s for consultations, with the majority of the two blue MPs (Paolo Emilio Russo and Deborah Bergamini) abstaining in the afternoon. The text stipulated that those who were “ideologically oriented” and who “seek to deny the protections underlying the services that clinics must guarantee to initiate the procedure for termination of pregnancy” would be excluded from these structures. The government’s proposal to reformulate was sent back to sender, instead mentioning the need for “a balance between conscientious objector and non-conscientious objector health workers” in clinics and removing the reference to abortion.
Source: Today IT
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