Brussels \u2013 One should never take one\u2019s rights for granted. Why? Because all the historical and social achievements secured through struggles, protests, and reforms to safeguard fundamental freedoms can easily be challenged and, in some cases, become a political rallying cry. This is particularly true of women\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n
From Monday (14 September) to Thursday (17 September), at the European Parliament\u2019s headquarters in Strasbourg, the MEP for the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), Paolo Inselvini, elected as a member of Fratelli d\u2019Italia, is organising an informative exhibition against abortion entitled <\/strong> \u201cJust EUman \u2013 How a European citizen is born\u201d. The exhibition has been organised by Pro Vita & Famiglia, an Italian Catholic and conservative association that promotes \u201cthe defence of life from conception to natural death and the traditional family.\u201d In a press release, the MEP explained that the installation \u201cconsists of fourteen panels and a screening of the video \u2018Baby Oliver\u2019, with the aim of illustrating human development from fertilisation to birth.\u201d The exhibition opened today (15 September), and the MEP (ECR) and head of delegation of Fratelli d\u2019Italia <\/span>at the European Parliament, <\/span>Carlo Fidanza<\/strong>, co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), Nicola Procaccini<\/strong>, MEPs (ECR), Mariateresa Vivaldini, Sergio Berlato, Margarita de la Pisa Carri\u00f3n, Marion Mar\u00e9chal<\/strong> (who is also Marine Le Pen\u2019s niece), and the MEP for the Patriots for Europe, Elisabeth Dieringer-Granza<\/strong>. <\/p>\n According to press agency reports, the chair of La Sinistra in the European Parliament, Manon Aubry, is said to have called for the exhibition to be censored<\/strong>. In response, Procaccini stated that this shows that \u201conce again, the suppression of ideas, like the suppression of life, remains a priority on the political agenda of the left.\u201d On the contrary, \u201cour agenda moves in the diametrically opposite direction\u2014that of life, always,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n MEP (S&D), Alessandra Moretti,<\/strong> said she was \u201cliterally shocked\u201d to see that an Italian MEP had organised \u201can exhibition against the right to abortion and against women\u2019s freedom to self-determination and to make choices about their own bodies.\u201d Moretti reiterated that \u201cvoluntary termination of pregnancy is a dramatic choice for every woman, perhaps the most painful of her life.\u201d For this reason, \u201cseeing an exhibition that tramples on our rights and freedoms within the European institutions is unacceptable, just as it is serious that it was authorised,<\/strong>\u201d she added. According to the Venetian MP, the event stands in stark contrast to what happened yesterday when, during the opening of the plenary session, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola<\/strong>, remembered <\/a>“Emma Bonino and her historic battles<\/a>, including the fundamental right to abortion and reproductive health.\u201d The MEP emphasised that \u201cthe best way to honour her memory is not with mere applause, but through concrete actions;\u201d therefore, \u201cthis exhibition represents an open insult to her memory and a blow to the civil rights achievements of all women,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n