Rai chair chides Vespa on all-male abortion show

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 19 - Rai Chairman Marinella Soldi on Friday chided veteran talk show host Bruno Vespa over Thursday night's episode of his flagship Porta a Porta show which only features male pundits on the current abortion debate in Italy after a government move to let pro-life activists into clinics to illustrate alternatives to women wanting to end their pregnancies.
    Soldi wrote to Vespa, one of the network's stars, and "recalled the fundamental role of the public service in particular on such a sensitive issue and one which directly bears on women's bodies," Rai sources said.
    Rai had said earlier that all the female commentators contacted to appear on the show had been unavailable. (ANSA).