L'Avvenire reported that the largest family and pro-life organizations handed over a joint document to the parties preparing for the election. The text calls on political forces to take action to stop the demographic decline, to ensure the right to motherhood and fatherhood, and to protect the fetus. Among the proposals is to dedicate a special day once a year to unborn life.
Massimo Gandolfini, head of the organization called Family Day, said that their campaign initiative is primarily aimed at voters: "you have to go vote, staying away from the polls is a sin, because all those who want to protect life, family and educational freedom must have their voice heard against parties and candidates who oppose it, a cultural revolution must be launched on September 25," he declared.
Abortion has become an everyday topic as the election approaches. Italian actress Sabrina Ferilli, known for her left-wing sympathies, called the provision introduced in Hungary, which stipulates the possibility of listening to the fetal heartbeat, torture on her social media page. He added that the same "humiliation" awaits women in the event of an electoral victory for the Italian right, if a woman - that is, Giorgia Meloni, the president of the Italian Brothers (FdI) - becomes the next prime minister.
Earlier, one of the most popular Italian influencers, Chiara Ferragni, also protested against the policy of the Italian Brothers, stating that the right to abortion was abolished in the provinces led by the party. Giorgia Meloni responded that instead of abortion, her party wants to ensure women the right not to have to choose abortion.
The FdI-led Marche province's abortion policy gained attention at the beginning of the election campaign in August, when health unions announced that half of the women who decided to have an abortion were looking for a solution outside the region, in hospitals in other regions of Italy. Elisabetta Piccolotti, candidate for the Italian Left (SI), urged an investigation into the matter at the Ministry of Health after, according to her information, listening to fetal heart sounds was introduced in the Marche province for women choosing to terminate their pregnancies.
Eleonora Evi, a member of the European Parliament of the Greens, compared the Marche province in the central part of Italy to Hungary at a press conference held in the House of Representatives in Rome, following the measures announced by Interior Minister Sándor Pintér to protect the fetus. The Ministry of Health and the Marche province denied the information about them on Friday evening. The Catholic L'Avvenire asked how "listening to an eight-week-old human heart can cause such fear".
According to the data of health interest representatives, more than 64 percent of Italian obstetrician-gynecologists refuse abortions for reasons of conscience, in Marché the proportion reaches seventy percent. Emma Bonino, leader of the Europe+ party and former European Union commissioner, said in a briefing to the foreign press that no matter who wins the parliamentary elections on September 25, the abortion law will not be repealed. "The law will remain, but if the right wins, it may turn out that they will do everything in order not to apply it, the majority of doctors will say no anyway," said Bonino.
Senator Simone Pillon, a League politician who is close to the pro-life and family movements, welcomed the Hungarian provision on the Radio Popolare channel, stating that it "finally puts people at the center". In Italy, abortion was legalized in a referendum in 1978.
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Cover image: MATTEO SALVINI AND GIORGIA MELONI / Photo: Il Primato Nazionale
