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Opposition attacks after EC says abortion not linked to NRRP

Row also erupts over all-male Rai panel of pundits

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 19 - Opposition parties attacked the government after the European Commission said Friday that a move to let pro-life activists into abortion clinics had no place in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), in a decree of which it was inserted earlier this week.
    "The EU, too, raps the government's knuckles over abortion," said the leftwing populist 5-Star Movement.
    Centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MP Beatrice Lorenzin said "Brothers of Italy (Premier Giorgia Meloni's party) wants to make the experience of abortion even more painful".
    "Even the EU says abortion has nothing to do with the NRRP", said Luana Zanella of the Green-Left Alliance (AVS).
    Meanwhile another row erupted after the flagship Port a Porta current affairs show on public broadcaster Rai only had male pundits commenting on the abortion issue Thursday night.
    Rai responded by saying that the female commentators contacted were unavailable. (ANSA).
   

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