“Are you pregnant?” reads the flier from the “Center for Assistance to Life” in the town.
If you think the only option is abortion, it tells women considering the procedure: “Contact us!
We can talk and together it will be different.”Soon, there may be more than just fliers in this and similar centers.
The measure is essentially a restatement of a part of Italy’s 1978 abortion law, which emphasized prevention even as it legalized abortion.
To that end, the law allowed the family counseling centers to make use of volunteer associations “protecting motherhood” to help women avoid terminating their pregnancies because of economic, social or family hardships.
Persons:
”, Giorgia Meloni
Organizations:
“ Center, Assistance
Locations:
Verbania, Italy