The rule on the presence of anti-abortion associations in clinics? “He has no connection with the Pnrr.” The cold shower for the government majority arrives mid-morning, at the traditional press point of the EU Commission: asked about the FdI amendment to include in the legislative decree on the Pnrr the possibility for Regions and consultancies “to avail themselves, without new or greater burdens on public finances, including the involvement of third sector entities that have qualified experience in maternity support”, the spokeswoman for the Brussels executive in charge of economic affairs, Veerle Nuyts, specified that the measure is not one of those included in the Italian Recovery Plan and on whose execution Italy must give an account to Europe. Far from it.
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Of course, he then specified, the Pnrr decree under discussion in Parliament «also contains measures relating to the governance structure of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, but it also presents other profiles that have no connection with the Recovery Plan such as, in particular, the provision on abortion”. In none of its intermediate and final objectives (the achievement of which “unlocks” the payment of the Plan funds) does the Italian Pnrr envisage measures regarding voluntary termination of pregnancy.
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And the Brussels distinction inflames the Italian controversy, in the aftermath of the rejection of an agenda of the Democratic Party on the issue, with the abstention of 15 Northern League members and one Azzurri. «Pnrr and abortion have nothing to do and now Europe also reproaches us», commented the leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber Chiara Braga, convinced that «associations that are contrary to the fundamental right of women to have access to counseling centers cannot be allowed decide about their body”: “It was an ideological and worrying stretch that takes us back in time and in conquests. There’s no point in having a female prime minister if she doesn’t defend the rights of all other women.” The Dems announce new initiatives and in the Senate, where yesterday the Pnrr bill arrived in the Budget Committee, they are ready to present new agendas and amendments. If the Five Star Chamber and Senate groups highlighted, in a note, that Brussels «has criticized the Meloni government for the attempt to insert a rule into the folds of the Pnrr decree to allow pro-life associations to enter the clinics at the moment of the choice of the woman to terminate the pregnancy”, the M5S leader Giuseppe Conte instead stayed out of the controversy: “Let’s not reopen completely useless ideological conflicts. There has been a law for a long time (194 of 1978, ed.); we allow it to be applied to all women who request it.” Defending the amendment «from the declarations maliciously amplified by the left» was the FdI group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti: «Not even one euro from the Pnrr will be used to support the volunteers who will be able to work in the clinics, as already provided for by 194, for free» .
Just a week ago, the plenary of the European Parliament approved a resolution with a high symbolic value, but not binding for the 27 EU states, precisely on the topic of access to voluntary termination of pregnancy, proposing to include, in article 3 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, following the example of what France has recently done in the Constitution, a new part relating precisely to abortion: «Everyone has the right to autonomous decision-making over their own body, to free, informed access , comprehensive and universal sexual and reproductive health and related health services without discrimination, including access to safe and legal abortion.” Italy, then, ended up in the sights of the European Chamber: the text asks, in fact, not only that EU governments completely decriminalize abortion according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (in Malta and Poland, for example , is still prohibited or severely limited), but also that remove the existing obstacles to its exercise, such as the presence of a large part of conscientious objector doctors “which makes the voluntary termination of pregnancy extremely difficult in some Italian regions”. . In the resolution approved by a large majority by the European Chamber (in favor of a broad front of socialists, liberals, leftists, greens, together with around forty MPs), there is also a clear stance: we need a stop to the disbursement of EU funds into coffers “of anti-gender organizations and against women’s rights in matters of sexual and reproductive health”.
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