Italy’s Meloni Fights Abortion Extremism at G7 Countries

By | June 20, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C., June 21 (C-Fam) Italian President Giorgia Meloni used her role as President of the G7 Summit and the presence of the Holy Father Pope Francis as leverage to remove an explicit endorsement of abortion in the final statement of the diplomatic meeting.

Italian diplomats were able to nix an explicit mention of “access to safe and legal abortion and post abortion care” in the final statement of this year’s G7 Summit held at Apulia, Italy. They were able to do this even though both Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden were insistent on retaining the abortion language from last year’s G7 Summit.

EU diplomats told the Reuters news agency that Pope Francis’ presence loomed large in the negotiations over abortion in Apulia. At one point, an Italian negotiator reportedly said, “the pope will never accept this,” in reference to the abortion language.

Meloni showed her political skills as she simultaneously downplayed the abortion controversy and accused U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron of using the G7 Summit to campaign for abortion in order to influence the upcoming elections in the United States and France.

“I believe it is profoundly wrong, in difficult times like these, to campaign using a precious forum like the G7,” Meloni said, objecting to any explicit reference to abortion in the final communique of the G7 Summit held at Apulia, Italy, last week.

Even though Meloni was able to remove an explicit reference to abortion, the final statement of the conference uses euphemisms to promote abortion, gender ideology, and censorship of pro-life and pro-family views.

The final G7 communiqué commits the seven leading economic powers to promote “sexual and reproductive health and rights” through the United Nations. It condemns the rollback of rights for “LGTBTQI+ people”, and pledges actions to combat “technology facilitated gender-based violence,” a term of art for online content moderation that suppresses conservative views on abortion and homosexual/transgender issues.

The G7 countries commit “to further promote comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all.”

The term “sexual and reproductive health and rights”, sometimes referred to in short as SRHR, is widely understood as including abortion. The most widely cited definition of the term, including by UN agencies, was contained in a special report of the Guttmacher/ Lancet Commission on sexual and reproductive health and rights in May 2018. It is increasingly becoming a formal definition of the term for UN agencies even though it was not negotiated or agreed upon by UN Member States.

The conference statement also reiterated a commitment to promote homosexual/trans issues globally.

“We express our strong concern about the rollback of the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ people around the world,” reads the statement, which calls for “gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity.” Women “in all their diversity” is another controversial term understood to refer to not just biological women but individuals who are confused about their true sex and purport to be of the opposite sex.

Moreover, the Communique’s commitment to fight “technology-facilitated gender based violence” is sure to concern defenders of free speech. This relatively new term has been developed by Western countries to harmonize content moderation standards in line with feminist ideology, including abortion and homosexual/trans issues. UN agencies and officials openly call pro-life speech a form of “gender-based violence.” Similarly, misgendering a man who identifies as a woman is also considered “gender-based violence.”

 

 

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