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Giletti Intervista Giorgia Meloni Sull’aborto: “Non Intendo Abolire o Modificare La Legge 194,” 2022.
Description: Giorgia Meloni once and for all clarifies her thoughts on law 194 on abortion: "In what language should I tell you? Tomorrow some pseudo-feminist will attack me anyway saying that it's not what I really want"
Translated from Italian
Giorgia: Can you see me? OK. I don't intend to abolish Law 194. I don’t intend to amend- I don't intend to amend Law 194. Understand? I don't want to cancel it. OK? In what language can I explain it? I want to apply Law 194, that is, adding a right means that if today there are women in Italy who find themselves forced to have an abortion, for example because they feel they don't have the money to raise that child or to carry the pregnancy to term, for example because they feel alone, for example because they have no instructions to give them a hand. I want to give them the possibility to make a different choice, without taking anything away from those who want to make the choice of abortion. And adding or removing a right, because things have to be said as they are. And instead, although I have been saying this for decades and I have rewritten it on the program, I have reiterated it these days hundreds of times, you will find tomorrow, some pseudo-feminist who is in an attempt, let's say to attack me for no reason, will say “but that's not what she really wants to do”. Gentlemen, if there is one thing that everybody knows about Giorgia Meloni, is that when I think something, I say it.
2019 ABORTION ACCESS RESTRICTED
Government introduces restrictive amendments
1990s-2000s ABORTION ACCESS RESTRICTED
Conscientious Objectors: High number of doctors refuse to provide abortion (despite Legge 194)
1978 ABORTION DECRIMINALIZED
Passage of Legge 194 - legalizes Therapeutic Abortion, up to 90 days
1971-75 ABORTION RESTRICTIONS REMOVED
The Court Strikes The Rocco Code; Removal of Ban on Birth Control and Abortion-Related Information
1946 Women given RIGHT TO VOTE
1930 ABORTION CRIMINALIZED
The Rocco Penal Code under Fascism classifies abortion as a crime against “the integrity and health of the race”
1800 - 1900s ABORTION REMAINS CRIMINALbut Rarely Prosecuted
1700 - 1800s ABORTION CONSIDERED A MORAL SIN AND A CRIME
Inconsistent Enforcement; Courts prioritize social order and honor over punishment