The majority is divided on abortion: in the Chamber the League abstains on pro-life issues in the clinics wanted by FdI. The Democratic Party: “Government against women”

The Chamber rejected with 93 votes in favour, 117 against and 18 abstentions the agenda presented by the Democratic Party to the Pnrr decree with which the dems asked to ensure that the amendment presented by FdI on abortion (which provides for the presence of the committees Pro Life in the counseling centers) did not create any limitations to the full implementation of law 194. From the records, however, a split in the majority emerges. As many as 15 of the 37 Northern League deputies present abstained on the text presented by the Dems, including the group leader Riccardo Molinari. Who explains: “On ethical issues we left freedom of conscience and therefore there were those who followed the government’s instructions and those who abstained”. Among the 18 abstentions was also the FI deputy Paolo Emilio Russowith Giuseppe Castiglione of Action, Dieter Steger del Misto and the Northern League members Laura Ravetto, Edoardo Ziello, Giorgia Andreuzza, Davide Bellomo, Davide Bergamini, Ingrid Bisa, Vanessa Cattoi, Rebecca Frassini, Andrea Giaccone, Dario Giagoni, Simonetta Matone, Giovanna Miele, Tiziana Nisini, Attilio Pierro.

“We are not surprised” by the government’s negative opinion on the agenda, which “asked to ensure the full implementation of 194 so that women’s right to access abortion is not reduced. The government and the majority have thrown away the mask”, he said. said the Dem deputy in the Chamber Ilenia Malavasi after the government reiterated the negative opinion on the agenda, which was then rejected, which it had asked to be set aside yesterday. “What have women done wrong to you? You have dismantled the Women’s Option, increased the VAT on children’s products and sanitary napkins, removed the restrictions on female and youth employment from the Pnrr, today the nursery bonuses are blocked. The issue of birth rate is not addressed attacking the 194”, continued Malavasi who pointed the finger at “a continuous attack on women’s freedom of choice”.

From the majority benches, she intervened Maria Carolina Varchi of FdI who spoke of the “prejudice” present in the agenda towards “certain third sector associations, deemed capable of having a violent impact on women, an unfounded prejudice” against “those who work alongside women” and do not deserve this “stigma “. And then he added: “There is a partial reading of law 194 by those who would like to demolish it in all those parts in which it brings together many sensitivities making it a complete law”. This amendment “allows the total application of the 194, giving women, as expected, the possibility to choose in full conscience and freedom. Freedom matures where there is knowledge”, “if the only path is abortion it is not freedom”, concluded Varchi.

Heartfelt speech in the Chamber by the democratic deputy Michela Di Biase. The dem defines that of the majority as “a real psychological torture” towards women who want or would like to practice abortion. “If you really want the full application of law 194 so much – says Di Biase, leader of the Democratic Party in the bicameral Childhood and Adolescence Commission – something strongly desired also by the Democratic Party, then why do you focus only on this point and not focus on many other points as well of the law that are completely disapplied? Why don’t you invest resources to complete the network of counseling centers? Why don’t you feel the need to work on conscientious objection? to torture women psychologically, you should help women practice abortion and not hinder them.”