The Left wants to change Italy's
abortion law, not the government which has come under fire, also
from Spain, for alleged plans to let pro-life advocates into
abortion clinics, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday.
Meloni again described these reports as "fake news".
"Those who want to change Law 194 is the Left, not us.
We only
want to guarantee free choices".
Meloni has hit back hard after a Spanish minister criticised an
alleged Italian government measure that would allow
'pro-maternity' associations access to abortion clinics.
"When you are ignorant on a subject you must at least have the
good sense not to give lessons," Meloni said in response to
comments by Spanish Equality Minister Ana Recondo.
Recondo had said that: "allowing organised pressure against
women who want to interrupt a pregnancy means undermining a
right recognised by the law.
"It is the strategy of the far right: to threaten to strip
rights, to rein in parity between women and men," she said on X.
Italy's Pro Vita & Famiglia pro-life and family group said
Tuesday it would not enter the abortion consultancies, where
women receive certificates to have an abortion, despite the
government's reported plans.
The government's alleged plans have sparked the ire of women's
and abortion groups as well as liberal political parties.
Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978 but it is hard to
get in practice with around half the country's doctors
conscientious objectors on moral or religious grounds, rising to
almost 90% in some regions.
Meloni suggested that the Left wanted to make abortion easier to
access.
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