Posted on 04/28/2024 11:39:18 AM PDT by John Semmens
Italy's Senate passed a law which allows regions to permit groups "with a qualified experience supporting motherhood" to have access to women considering abortions at public clinics. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said "allowing those with a pro-life message into abortion clinics is intended to fully inform women. I believe that we must guarantee a free choice and I believe that to make a free choice you need to have all the necessary information."
Silvana Agatone, president of the pro-choice association LAIGA, objected to the law saying "these pro-life advocates don't have the medical training or the credentials to give accurate information. All they will accomplish is to confuse women who have already made the decision to terminate their pregnancies. This is cruel and inhumane. Under the law, a woman is guaranteed the right to an abortion on her own request in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, or later if her health or life is endangered. But the law also allows health care personnel to register as conscientious objectors and refuse to perform abortions."
"Why shouldn't a doctor also have the option to decline to kill an unborn child?" Merloni asked. "Women are free to find a doctor who is willing to do the deed. The notion that women will be greatly inconvenienced is absurd. I'm certain that LAIGA will be able to assist women in finding a doctor willing to perform the procedure."
Meanwhile in the US, after all the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing about how the Dobbs decision relegating control over whether abortions are legal to each individual state, "would rob women of the constitutional right to an abortion that was granted by the 1973's Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade," Planned Parenthood was able to perform a record 392,715 abortions in the year since Dobbs went into effect. Now US birth rates per woman are the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1930.
The Biden campaign assured female voters that "neither the uncertainties of different rules in different states nor the tyranny of places like Italy will be permitted in this country. After Democrats sweep the November elections every woman who wants an abortion at any time, for any reason will have unfettered access free-of-charge courtesy of a new federal law or executive order, whichever is most feasible. The flood of unwanted intruders into our communities and homes will be ended once and for all."
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There are times that Italy seems more Christian than the Vatican.
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