{"id":23609,"date":"2022-04-29T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donnexdiritti.com\/?p=23609"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:58:58","slug":"the-polish-drift-of-italy-starts-from-afar-who-salvini-fontana-and-pillons-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnexdiritti.com\/2022\/04\/29\/the-polish-drift-of-italy-starts-from-afar-who-salvini-fontana-and-pillons-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polish drift of Italy starts from afar: who are the friends of Salvini, Fontana and Pillon?"},"content":{"rendered":"
In Poland, the influence of the most reactionary and fundamentalist positions of the Catholic Church is by now evident and the attack on rights – especially those of women – is daily. Our country is also embarking on the same path: between Minister Fontana’s positions against abortion and gay rights, the motions of various municipalities in support of self-styled ‘prolife’ associations and the obscene Pillon bill on shared custody<\/strong> – which, in fact, questions the right to divorce \u2013 the signs of the reactionary drift are all there.<\/p>\n The rise of the right, inside and outside the government coalitions in Europe, with parties and groups that make direct reference to the principles of the Catholic Church as the founding points of their politics, has among its worrying effects the dismantling of rights, starting from those of women. There are many signs in this direction. Let’s line up some. 333 reactionary and ultra-Catholic associations from nine Central and Eastern European countries <\/strong>\u2013 such as Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine \u2013 have addressed a letter to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland,<\/strong> asking for the revision of the Istanbul Convention to the fight against gender-based violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n In Chi\u015fin\u0103u, Moldova, this year the World Congress of Families brought together all the main parties and NGOs that defend the natural family (man\/woman) and oppose abortion, civil unions and the dissolution of the sacred bond of marriage<\/strong>: a gathering attended by the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, and which Matteo Salvini<\/strong> greeted with a message read from the stage in which he underlined that: \u201cin these times of destructive and irrational aggression against the founding values of our cultures, the efforts to protect the natural family are vital to the survival and development of humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n In Poland, where Law and Justice (PiS) was reconfirmed as the first party in the recent administrative elections, with some losses in the cities, the right-wing government has repeatedly tried to narrow the scope of the law on voluntary abortion,<\/strong> inducing every time thousands of women to take to the streets to stop this project. It is a 1993 law among the most restrictive in Europe (in fact it allows abortion only in case of danger to the woman’s life, rape or serious malformation of the fetus) that the Catholic right-wing PiS would like to sweep away in a country which already every year about 150,000 clandestine abortions occur.<\/p>\n A drift towards which Italy has been heading for some time due to the continuous attacks and sabotage against a law, the 194 of 1978, now almost impossible to apply given that 70 percent of doctors refuse to practice the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVG).<\/p>\n A DRAINING OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION WHICH PUT ITALY ALMOST ON THE SAME LEVEL AS COUNTRIES WHERE ABORTION IS FORBIDDEN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n such as Malta, and increasingly distant from countries where objection is almost non-existent \u2013 such as England (10 per cent), Norway and Germany (6 per cent), France (3 per cent) \u2013 or entirely non-existent, such as Sweden and Finland. As if that weren’t enough in recent weeks Pope Francis has compared those who practice abortion to those who hire a hitman to solve a problem and pro-life motions have sprung up in various Italian municipalities. The first was Verona where the city council accepted with 21 votes in favor – including that of the leader of the Democratic Party, Carla Padovani – and six against, the motion 434 of the Northern League Zelger<\/strong> aimed at financing pro-life Catholic associations and describing Verona as \u00aba city in favor of life\u00bb.<\/p>\n A motion that has made converts and which, according to what was declared by the youth manager of the League, Roberto Todeschini, will be brought to all municipalities “with the aim of extending it to a regional and national level”.<\/strong> And in fact, a few days later, in the municipality of Ferrara, the councilor Alessandro Balboni of the Brothers of Italy<\/strong> filed a similar motion for economic support for women in order to distract them from the intention to practice IVG, proclaiming Ferrara \u00ab city that protects the defenceless\u00bb, and a very similar one was presented, again by Fratelli d’Italia, to the municipality of Rome to proclaim the capital a \u00abpro-life city\u00bb and prepare \u00abresources necessary to support pro-life centres\u00bb .<\/p>\nThe European context<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The attack on 194<\/strong><\/h5>\n