2024-07-27 14:50:11
Fratelli d’Italia is trying again. A motion by city councilor Diego Salvadori would like Bolzano to be proclaimed a “pro-life city”, and for the council to introduce a tax lever to benefit those who have multiple children and allocate resources for “life support centers” and other projects aimed at “informing women about alternatives to voluntary termination of pregnancy”, to “reaffirm the commitment of all institutions to respecting law 194”.
This was enough to outrage Team K councillors Matthias Cologna and Thomas Brancaglion, who invited their most experienced party colleagues to speak to the press about it: gynecologist Sabine Kiem, councillor in Merano, and provincial councillor Franz Ploner, former hospital chief and medical director.
According to all of them, “194 has done its duty, choices about women’s bodies are up to women”: The motion? “A sneaky attack on women,” they declare. It is not new that FdI opens the clinics to pro-life, anti-abortionists. Sabine Kiem recalls the posters with the embryos, “an insult to those who cannot have children,” explains how medical abortion works, now almost adopted in all hospitals between Milan and Bologna. Ploner insists on the right to self-determination, on the medical duty to protect an autonomous decision-making process while recognizing the legitimacy of objection, on the psychological pressure of certain pro-life information.
South Tyrol has 85% of conscientious objectors (a record in Italy), with only 12 out of 92 qualified doctors (6 in Bolzano, 6 in Merano) who perform operations during the year – 500.
“We are curious to see how members of the majority will vote,” Cologna informs. He is referring to Io sto con Bolzano, the party of the former councilor, now provincial councilor. Cologna explains: “In 2016, as a candidate, Angelo Gennaccaro signed the manifesto of ‘Generazione Famiglia’.”
2024-07-27 14:50:11