Italy's far-right government approves financing this measure with money from the European Union. The measure was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, whose president, Lorenzo Fontana (La Liga), is a declared anti-abortionist.
The plan, however, still has to go through the Senate, where the majority of the right-wing government also has sufficient support. Italy is the main European recipient of this money, and now the government intends to use some of it for its hidden fight against abortion. The text of the amendment guarantees regions the possibility of using post-pandemic funds dedicated to health to organize services in consultation centers. It is so aggressive that it has even caught the protagonists themselves somewhat offside. Before the vote, Jacopo Coghe, spokesman for Pro Vita, Italy's largest anti- abortion organization, told Italian media that the group had no intention of entering abortion clinics. However, he stated that the clinics should "receive qualified experience in supporting motherhood." The amendment establishes that the regions can involve anti-abortion associations in the clinics. The PD's spokesman in the Senate, Francesco Boccia, criticized the measure. "We are witnessing a strong attack on women's freedom to choose about their own bodies," he said. The general secretary of the PD, Elly Schlien, announced that her party would strongly oppose this measure. The decision was not coincidental, and it placed Eugenia Rocella, daughter, paradoxically, of one of the founders of the Radical Party (which built its ideology around the right to abortion), in charge of the Family Ministry. RocellA is a declared enemy of the living will, of in vitro fertilization with egg donation, of the Ru-486 abortion pill, of homosexual families, of LGTBI rights, and of the express divorce law. She faces all these questions with the fever of the convert. In the seventies, she was a great feminist of the women's liberation movement. But in the eighties, she distanced herself from that and assured that it led "to the destruction of the individual."