{"id":194402,"date":"2023-05-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=194402"},"modified":"2023-05-22T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:48:21","slug":"italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","title":{"rendered":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Access to hormonal contraceptives for all is to be guaranteed in Italy, as proposed by the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa). As part of this, the birth control pill will be made available free of charge to women of all ages, Salto.bz <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>. Although the decision is not yet final, the cost to the government is estimated at around 140 million euros per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal has been supported by some political parties and health organizations, while others, such as Fratelli d’Italia<\/em> and Pro Vita<\/em>, have opposed the move. Despite its objections, Aifa, as an independent authority, has the power to make the decision without government involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italy has one of the lowest rates of contraceptive use in Europe and a high percentage of gynecologists who still refuse to perform abortions on moral grounds. At the same time, the country’s birth rate is at a record low: fewer than 400,000 births were recorded in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":193024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"512"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[805,512],"tags":[8152,1389,11057,26186],"class_list":["post-194402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreground","category-politics","tag-abortion-4","tag-birth-control","tag-giorgia-meloni-3","tag-italy-4"],"yoast_head":"\nItalian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge - IFN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IFN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-23T10:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"566\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"325\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"iFamNews Germany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/iFamNewsDE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iFamNewsEN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"iFamNews Germany\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge - IFN","description":"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge","og_description":"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.","og_url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","og_site_name":"IFN","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews\/","article_published_time":"2023-05-23T10:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":566,"height":325,"url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"iFamNews Germany","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/iFamNewsDE","twitter_site":"@iFamNewsEN","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"iFamNews Germany","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge"},"author":{"name":"iFamNews Germany","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/82ec6d77f1c630266e2c3a9e8643b439"},"headline":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge","datePublished":"2023-05-23T10:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge"},"wordCount":167,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png","keywords":["abortion","birth control","Giorgia Meloni","Italy"],"articleSection":["Foreground","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge","name":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge - IFN","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png","datePublished":"2023-05-23T10:00:00+00:00","description":"In Italy, there is still a resistance among doctors to perform abortions. The pharmaceutical industry now wants to counteract this. But the policy supports physicians.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-17-07-35-Italys-hard-right-parties-ready-to-fill-void-if-Draghi-quits.png","width":566,"height":325,"caption":"Giorgia Meloni\/Picture: The Irish Times (detail)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/italian-pm-meloni-critizes-decision-to-make-birth-control-pill-free-of-charge#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politik","item":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/de\/kategorie\/politik"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Italian PM Meloni critizes decision to make birth control pill free of charge"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/","name":"IFN","description":"International Family News Network","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#organization","name":"iFamNews","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Share-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Share-logo.png","width":200,"height":200,"caption":"iFamNews"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews","https:\/\/x.com\/iFamNewsEN"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/82ec6d77f1c630266e2c3a9e8643b439","name":"iFamNews Germany","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c51b977100a05a1448d61b80953be1e3192e0be236d631062ca6a59c6f9a879b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c51b977100a05a1448d61b80953be1e3192e0be236d631062ca6a59c6f9a879b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"iFamNews Germany"},"description":"Articles published by the German iFamNews editorial team.","sameAs":["https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/de","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iFamNews\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/iFamNewsDE","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMVyIt4z9BANW3d09kwfUpw"],"url":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/author\/redaktion"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194405,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194402\/revisions\/194405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}