Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni hashit back hard after a Spanish minister criticized an Italiangovernment measure that would allow 'pro-maternity' associationsaccess to abortion clinics.
"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.
"It is the strategy of the far right: to threaten to striprights, to reinstate parity between women and men," she said
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Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978 but it is hard to get in practice with around half the country's doctorsconscious objectors on moral or religious grounds, rising toalmost 90% in some regions.