(22 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 22 April 2024
1. Wide of protest in front of the senate, with sign reading (Italian) "The body is mine and I decide"
2. Close of sign reading (English) "My body, my choice"
3. Women shouting during the demo, banner reading: "Coordination of assemblies of counselling centres"
4. Close of activist
5. Sing reading: "Listen to this beat"
6. Wide of women shouting
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Cecilia D’Elia, Senator of the Democratic Party:
"The government should realise that they keep saying they absolutely do not want to boycott or touch Law 194, but the truth is that the right-wing opposes women’s reproductive autonomy, fears women’s choices regarding motherhood, sexuality, and abortion."
8. Wide of demo
9. Close of signs in the shape of abortion pills
10. Wide of an activist speaking to people
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Bianca Monteleone, activist:
"Abortion in Italy is neither free, nor safe, nor free of charge. Because, in addition to the fact that the law is extremely paternalistic—because it is the law for the social protection of motherhood and it foresees abortion as an exception that must be hindered as much as possible, say through state measures— the first article states that it is not a form of contraception, thus distinguishing it from all other methods of birth control. Therefore, Law 194 is not a law that is made for the self-determination of one’s own body regarding abortion."
12. Close of sign reading: "You want us at the stake you will burn with us"
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Bianca Monteleone, activist:
"The few things that should be guaranteed by Law 194, for example, the possibility of having an abortion at any time in any hospital, are not guaranteed. So not even the minimum guaranteed by a paternalistic law like Law 194 is ensured because, in fact, the stigma associated with the idea of abortion as murder and the idea of the product of pregnancy as a legal person, and so on, contribute to phenomena such as structural objection or pharmacist objection or medical malpractice, with which people are mistreated in hospitals, misinformed, and so on, fundamentally go unnoticed and continue to be amplified and not condemned."
14. Wide of protest
15. Close of protester speaking through megaphone
16. Signs reading: "I have had an abortion, I do not regret it, my body, my choice", and "Abortionists outside counselling centres, my body, my life, my choices"
17. Protester shouting
18. Protesters in front of Palazzo Madama
19. Close of Italian and European flags
STORYLINE:
"The body is mine and I manage it", shout the women who gathered on Monday in front of the Senate in Rome in defence of the right to abortion.
On Tuesday, senators will vote on a bill concerning the post-Covid recovery plan, which also contains an amendment that facilitates the involvement of "maternity support" associations into public counselling centres for abortion.
According to feminist activists and opposition MPs, this byline would open the doors of counselling centres to pro-life and anti-abortion groups.
Cecilia D’Elia, opposition senator for the Democratic Party, said "the government should realise that they keep saying they absolutely do not want to boycott or touch Law 194 (law that decriminalised abortion in Italy), but the truth is that the right-wing opposes women’s reproductive autonomy, and fears women’s choices regarding motherhood, sexuality, and abortion."
Video shot for AP by Paolo Lucariello and produced by Veronica Andrea Sauchelli
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