In the three days of the Fratelli d’Italia Convention in Pescara, the choice of is not at all surprising
include the spokesperson for Provita and Famiglia in the Panel dedicated to birth rate and demographic growth,
Rachele Ruiu. Just as the clear reference to Europe in the title of the panel “Europe al
crossroads: demographic growth is the key to the future”. Yet the approval comes right from Europe
by the European Parliament of a significant resolution in which it requests that the
right to abortion in safe conditions among the fundamental rights.
Instead, a few days later, on 23 April, in the latest Pnrr decree, voted by the Senate, it was included
an amendment that opens the doors of the clinics to anti-abortion associations. A decision that goes
against Law 194 against the autonomy and freedom of women.
The resolution could also have been a reminder to Italy which is closing clinics and making ever more money
the full application of Law 194 and the freedom of access to the voluntary interruption of is difficult
pregnancy. Instead in Italy they decide to go back half a century.
Opening the doors to anti-abortion associations in clinics is a further attack on freedom
female. Attack started right when this Government took office, when it was
a bill to confer civil rights on the embryo is part of the parliamentary discussion.
Attack perpetrated with the violent activism of anti-abortion associations in the territories, culminating with the
collection of signatures to introduce the barbaric and violent practice of listening to the heartbeat in Italy too
fetal heart rate for women who choose to terminate their pregnancy.
Will this be what Rachele Ruiu will propose as a tool to support birth rates?
The CGIL has repeatedly reiterated that without more female employment, children will not be born and that politics
of bonuses and contribution exemptions will not produce any positive results. It’s not blaming
women or by telling them that the role they must play is the reproductive one which will increase
birth rate. To support parenthood it is necessary to make it a social value. And instead we are at
paradox: bonuses are given for nursery schools for women with permanent jobs and who
have at least two children, while the allocations provided for by the Pnrr for nursery schools are being cut.
We will ask the Abruzzo Region, formally, following the example of Tuscany, Puglia and Emilia
Romagna, to create a wall against the entry of ProVita associations into clinics, precisely because
we want women to continue to be able to decide about their own bodies. Freedom and self-determination
women do not touch each other, we do not intend to take steps backwards in the slightest.
Pescara 28 April 2024
p.la Secretariat of the CGIL Abruzzo Molise
Alessandra Tersigni
