The Brothers of Italy has further impeded access to abortion in the Marche region - a policy it could replicate nationally if it wins power
hen Giulia, 20, discovered she was pregnant she immediately decided that she wasn’t ready to have a baby. Supported by her boyfriend and family, she sought medical advice in her home town in Italy’s central Marche region on how to obtain an abortion. She faced obstacles at every turn, from telephones not being answered and surgeries being closed, to one doctor who tried to persuade her to change her mind.
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.Photograph: Alberto Lingria/Reuters “Sometimes a woman doesn’t discover she is pregnant until the fifth or sixth week,” said Manuela Bora, a regional politician with the centre-left Democratic party. “It’s almost impossible to get an abortion here. Yes, we can’t deny that it was difficult before, but that was due to the moral objectors; now the erosion of abortion rights is a political theme.”
The service was contracted out to AIED – a non-profit family counselling clinic in Ascoli Piceno that provides abortion services – a decade ago because abortion procedures could no longer be guaranteed by the hospital due to the high number of moral objectors among its staff.
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