Posted on 04/16/2024 1:14:52 PM PDT by Cronos
Italian opposition parties have said women’s rights in Italy have been dealt a “heavy” blow after parliament passed a measure by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government allowing anti-abortion activists to enter abortion consultation clinics.
The measure forms part of a package of initiatives approved by Meloni’s cabinet that will be funded by the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund, of which Italy is the biggest beneficiary, and was put to the lower house in a confidence vote on Tuesday. The package of measures is expected to comfortably pass in the senate, too.
...Abortion was legalised in traditionally Catholic Italy in 1978 under legislation called Law 194. Although Meloni has promised not to change the law, accessing safe abortions in Italy is increasingly difficult due to the high number of gynaecologists who refuse to terminate pregnancies for moral or religious reasons. According to health ministry data from 2021, about 63% of gynaecologists refuse to perform the procedure.
...Elly Schlein, the leader of the centre-left Democratic party (PD), said the measure was a “heavy attack against the liberty of women”, while Silvia Roggiani, a PD deputy, said: “The right wing continues to display its nostalgic nature and obscurantist and patriarchal vision by trying, in every way, to erode women’s rights. It’s shameful.”
Deputies with the Five Star Movement said Italy had “chosen to take a further steps backwards”.
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It IS a question. So “climate activists” can block the roadway or bridge for HOURS but I cannot PRAY near a PP? So THEY can interrupt MY way but I cannot stand outside?
Good to see that a high number of gynecologists refuse to slaughter babies on the Altar of Convenience ...
Patriarchy is a GOOD thing.
“Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government... “
How come you never see the media write things like “Joe Biden’s far-left government”?
Once you think of the media as being Leftist activists, which they are, it all makes more sense.
Abortion and contraception needs to be banned in Italy to save the country (they need to ban immigration from non Italians first though) .
:: Patriarchy is a GOOD thing. ::
That’s what God thought...
Hmmmm ....
Go with the feminists or go with God?
Hmmmm ... decisions, decisions ... soooo difficult.
...
Yep!
I’m going with God.
Modern feminism, beginning with the Suffragette movement in England around the turn of the 19th century, was and STILL IS a communist pogrom.
Post-modern feminism allowed the rise of homosexuality which in turn allowed the rise of transgender activists.
It’s all communism.
That’s gonna piss off the powers that be.
LOL! Yeah, that fascist ultra right wing Meloni huh?
“ Abortion was legalised in traditionally Catholic Italy in 1978 under legislation called Law 194”
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The academy’s president said on Italian television, ‘I believe that at this point Law 194 is a pillar of our society.’ - President Pontifical Academy of Life Paglia
Italy is on the verge of being the first European country to experience negative population growth…that is, more deaths than births. Unfortunately a lot of the births will be to Muslims, since Italians have no children and in any case have given up the practice of their religion.
The only thing worse than patriarchy is... all the alternatives.
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