(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.18.2024).- The deputy Lorenzo Malagola presented an amendment to article 194 of the Italian law that seeks to make full use of this law “making use, without new or greater burdens on public finances, of the participation of third sector entities that have qualified experience in supporting maternity”.
The “rooms of life” have been approved, which would be part of the hospital managed by pro-life groups who are allowed to be inside the abortion hospitals to assist and inform pregnant women.
Article 1 of Law 194/78 states that “the State guarantees the right to conscious and responsible procreation, recognizes the social value of motherhood and protects human life from its origin (…) The State, the regions and local authorities, within the scope of their functions and competencies, promote and develop social and health services, as well as other initiatives necessary to prevent that abortion be used for the purpose of limiting births.”
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, stated that what this amendment to the constitution seeks is that, following her principle, women who are about to have an abortion can be provided with help to make a freer and more informed decision, assisting them in a concrete way to help them make the best decision.
The amendment has been taken as an attack by pro-abortion groups, who point out that it is yet another “interference of pro-life associations in the secular offices responsible for supporting women in their decisions”.
Moreover, the Meloni government had already allowed doctors who, for reasons of conscience, believe that it is not appropriate to perform abortion to deny it to those who request it, who make up 63.4% of doctors in Italy, 43% of doctors in Emilia Romagna and 85% in Sicily. They disagree with the practice that ends a human life.
The rooms of life seek to help by various means such as allowing the mother to listen to the baby’s heartbeat and above all to support and listen to pregnant women who need it in the context of a more general plan of help during and after pregnancy to women who live that moment with difficulties and who might consider the choice of interrupting the pregnancy, or who feel obliged to resort to it for lack of resources.
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