A Spanish minister on Wednesday
criticised the Italian government's reported plans to allow
pro-life groups into abortion clinics saying this would put
undue pressure on a woman's right to choose.
"Allowing organised pressure against women who want to interrupt
a pregnancy means undermining a right recognised by the law,"
said Ana Recondo, Spanish minister for equality.
"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, even though the
government was planning to allow them to.
The government plans have sparked the ire of women's and
abortion groups as well as liberal political parties.
Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1974 but it is hard to
get in practice with almost half the country's doctors
conscientious objectors on moral or religious grounds, rising to
almost 90% in some regions.
photo: a pro-abortion rally
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