More than 100 women in Italy have launched legal action over the discovery, which they say is a serious violation of human rights and 'like a sign of punishment'.
Italian medical professionals spoke out on Monday after right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini claimed that women go to emergency rooms for abortions because they live an "uncivilised lifestyle".
Several tens of thousands of people marched in support of the ultra-Conservative World Congress of Families on Sunday, on the final day of their conference in northern Italy.
Tens of thousands of people marched in the northern Italian city of Verona on Saturday to protest a meeting of the
anti-gay, anti-abortion US-based World Congress of Families.
Lorenzo Fontana, Italy's new Minister for Families and Disabilities who has made negative statements about gay families and reproductive rights, was targeted by hackers who inserted adverts for erectile dysfunction remedies into the search results for his website.
Italy marks 40 years of legalized abortion this month, but many women are still unable to access the procedure due to a rising rate of conscientious objection among doctors.
An Italian priest has sparked outrage after apparently comparing lawmakers who have campaigned for abortion access in Italy to one of the country's most notorious mafia killers.
Women in Italy will soon be able to terminate pregnancies without going to hospital, as Lazio - the central region including Rome - becomes the first in Italy to make abortion pills available at family planning clinics.
An Italian woman has shared her story of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy, where around 70 percent of doctors refuse to carry out the procedure on moral grounds.
A controversial move by a Rome hospital to hire two specialist abortion doctors - because the majority of Italian doctors refuse to carry out the procedure - has caused an outcry.
Pope Francis on Sunday urged the faithful to pray for unborn children threatened by "the termination of pregnancy" in a throwaway culture marked by falling birthrates.
Pope Francis on Wednesday took aim at the modern world's obsessions with power, success and beauty, citing the example of a woman who had an abortion to preserve her looks.
Pope Francis declared on Monday that all priests would have the right to forgive abortion, making permanent a temporary measure put in place for the Vatican's jubilee year.
Women in Italy still encounter “substantial difficulty” in accessing services to enable them to safely terminate a pregnancy despite abortion being legal in the country since the 1970s, the Council of Europe said on Monday.
A woman is taking her gynecologist to court after having to give birth to her dead fetus ten days after she thought she had gone through a successful abortion.
The archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio has blamed Italy's economic crisis on abortions, while also describing the country's anti-homophobia law as a "crime against humanity".
Foreigners in Italy are more likely to have an abortion than Italian women, while the overall number of terminations is going down, figures released on Friday show.
