Italian cities ’turn back the clock’ on women’s reproductive rights
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-10-15/italian-cities-turn-back-clock-women-s-reproductive-rights
Late on Oct. 4, Verona’s local council approved a motion “to prevent abortion and sustain maternity,” which allows the use of public money to fund anti-abortion Catholic organizations and encourages doctors to dissuade women from aborting. The coalition of center-right councilors also tried and failed to present a motion that would require all aborted fetuses to be buried in a cemetery, even without the consent of the woman involved.
