Italy moves to pass law allowing antiabortion groups inside clinics

ROME — Italy’s lower house has passed an amendment, part of the right-wing government’s new health-care package, that would open the way for antiabortion activists to enter family planning clinics, raising fears that women’s right to choose could be under threat in the country.

According to the amendment passed Tuesday, “nonprofit groups with qualified experience in supporting maternity” will be given access to family planning counseling centers that issue the certificates needed to obtain an abortion.