"When you are ignorant on a subject, you must at least have the good sense not to give lessons," Meloni said in response to comments by Spanish Equality Minister Ana Recondo. Recondo had said that "allowing organized pressure against women who want to interrupt a pregnancy means undermining a right recognized by the law.
" Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978, but it is hard to get it in practice with around half the country's doctorsconscious objectors on moral or religious grounds, rising toalmost 90% in some regions. (HANDLE)... Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has hit back hard after a Spanish minister criticized an Italian government measure that would allow 'pro-maternity' associations access to abortion clinics. "It is the strategy of the far right to threaten striprights, to reinstate parity between women and men," she said. "I am a woman, I am a mother, and I am proud to be a woman," said Meloni.