Abortion rights at risk in region led by party of Italy's possible next PM

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Bora herself is all too familiar with the tactics of anti-abortion activists.
61% :The Brothers of Italy-led council has in addition proposed allowing anti-abortion activists, who already infiltrate hospitals to pressure women not to end their pregnancy, to work in family counselling clinics.
60% : The clinic prepares women for medical or surgical abortions, the latter carried out each Saturday at the local hospital by two non-objector gynaecologists hired from outside the Marche region, who often face the wrath of anti-abortion protesters outside.
50% : A pregnancy termination through AIED costs €200, money that goes towards funding the service, compared with €1,500 in a privately run clinic.
47% : After clashing with Giorgia Latini, Marche's equal opportunities councillor, on abortion she received 1,450 nappies - representing the number of abortions in Marche in 2019 - from a doctor, who delivered the consignment to the council offices while his son held up a sign saying she had blood on her hands.
45% : The Brothers of Italy has further impeded access to abortion in the Marche region - a policy it could replicate nationally if it wins powerWhen Giulia, 20, discovered she was pregnant she immediately decided that she wasn't ready to have a baby.
45% : I'm not saying foreigners shouldn't have children but we need to create the conditions for Italians to reproduce," said Carlo Ciccioli, the Brothers of Italy group leader in Marche's council who described abortion as "an absolute rearguard battle" and last year provoked controversy after speaking of "ethnic substitution" of Italian children in schools.
41% : However, Marche, described as a "laboratory" for Brothers of Italy policies, provides an inkling of what might be to come if the coalition led by the party and including Matteo Salvini's far-right League, which is equally against abortion, clinches power.
37% :Abortion in Italy was legalised via a referendum in 1978, overturning an outright ban enforced by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini who deemed it a crime against the Italian race, but the high number of gynaecologists who refuse to terminate pregnancies for moral reasons - 64.6%, according to 2020 data - has meant women still encounter huge difficulties in accessing safe procedures.
35% : Giorgia Meloni, the party chief who hopes to become prime minister, has described abortion as a "defeat", although recently said abolishing the 1978 law was not on her agenda.

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