The Italian senate has approved a controversial law that allows anti-abortion activists access to women considering ending their pregnancies.
The development is a “victory” for Giorgia Meloni’s far-right administration, said ABC News, and “revives tensions” around the issue of abortion in Italy, 46 years after it was legalised in the “overwhelmingly Catholic country”. But there are already questions over what impact the new law will actually have.
‘Chips away at rights’
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