Protests at the General States of Birth when the minister for the family Eugenia Roccella took the floor and signs were raised in the audience that spelled out the words: “I decide”.
Meloni, displeased by the protests, shows solidarity with Roccella – “I was sorry, solidarity with the minister”. Thus the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni left the Senate regarding the protests against the Minister of the Family Eugenia Roccella. The show staged this morning is ignoble. Once again a Minister was prevented from intervening and expressing his ideas”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denounces this. “The person responsible – she underlines – is a group of protesters who fill their mouths with the words freedom, respect and self-determination of women , but then they love censorship and prevent a woman from speaking because they don’t share her ideas. I hope that all political forces have the courage to express solidarity and condemn, without ifs or buts. It’s time to say enough.”
A group of students challenged the minister. As soon as Roccella spoke, the whistles and screams began which prevented her from carrying out her speech. At that point Roccella, addressing the demonstrators, took the microphone and said: “Guys, we agree, but no one said that someone else decides on women’s bodies, absolutely no one.” But the protest continued. One of the demonstrators spoke briefly into the microphone, but was then interrupted by organizer Gigi De Palo, saying: “But this is a monologue.” So while the protest continued, De Palo himself decided to give the floor to other guests, postponing Roccella’s intervention who first left the stage and then the Auditorium. The work is continuing but the situation in the theater has not yet returned to normal.
The Minister for the Family, Eugenia Roccella
“I am sure that the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, the entire left, the intellectuals – Antonio Scurati, Roberto Saviano, Nicola Lagioia, Chiara Valerio, etc. -, the ‘big press’ and the ‘militant press’ that we have seen in these hours mobilized in other locations, will have unequivocal words of solidarity towards me after the act of censorship which he stopped me from speaking to the General States organized by the Foundation for Natality to carry out my intervention and also to respond to the protestors-censors and speak with them”. Thus the Minister for Family and Birthrate Eugenia Roccella in a post on Facebook.
“This morning I chose to leave the General States of Natality to allow the people who were on stage with me, an eight-month pregnant mother who gave her testimony and the president of the Family Forum Adriano Bordignon, to be able to speak without suffering the my same fate of censorship. And yet not even this was enough: I left the stage but also my mother (submerged by boos) and Bordignon were prevented from speaking calmly. So much so that the event was suspended the demonstration that it was not just a matter of censorship towards me or towards the government, but of a profound hostility towards motherhood and fatherhood, towards those who decide to bring a child into the world, exercising their freedom and without taking anything away from freedom of others, but contributing to giving a future to our society. In short, what is contested, in the end, is motherhood as a free choice”. This was stated in a note by Eugenia Roccella, Minister for Family, Birthplace and Equal Opportunities.
“We wanted to contest this Government and its patriarchal culture. Today Roccella said that no one was preventing us from our freedom, but it was always her who said that ‘unfortunately abortion is a right. But we also contest the approach of conference’. Speaking is one of the students of the Aracne collective who this morning challenged the Minister for the Family Eugenia Roccella at the General States of Natality inside the Conciliation Auditurium in Rome with the cry of “But which State, which God, on I decide my body” and again: “Pro Vita people out of the clinics.” “Valditara – says the Sicilian student – sent a circular to all the students inviting them to participate in a conference of this kind. We generally contest the conference which has a line aimed at making women think that their only goal in life is to have children, at making abortion impossible and at putting Pro Life people in the clinics.” “We don’t want the woman’s body – echoes a Roman student from the same collective – is seen as a tool for reproduction and we don’t want the ultimate goal of women to be considered motherhood. We ask for sex-emotional education in schools and Valditara’s proposal to educate on relationships will never satisfy us. We ask for a transformist pedagogy in schools to form another type of society.”
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