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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