Italy's main pro-life group said Tuesday it had no intention of entering abortion advice offices after Premier Giorgia Meloni's ruling Brothers of Italy (FdI) party tabled a motion proposing such a move and sparking a protest from abortion campaigners and leftwing parties.
But the group, Pro Vita & Famiglia, also said that the advice offices should "return to their original function of offering women an alternative to abortion".
"We have no intention of entering the (abortion) counselling centres, because our sphere of action is public awareness and political influence with national campaigns," said Jacopo Coghe, spokesman for Pro Vita & Famiglia.
"This does not detract from the urgency of returning counselling centres to the role for which they were conceived by Law 194 (legalising abortion, ed.), that is, places where women can be helped to find concrete alternatives to abortion by removing those situations of socio-economic hardship or loneliness and abandonment that make self-determination an empty political slogan".
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