{"id":322451,"date":"2024-12-03T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322451"},"modified":"2024-12-02T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:08:08","slug":"abortion-disrupt-pro-life-event-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-disrupt-pro-life-event-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion activists disrupt pro-life student event in Italy with smoke bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>According to the pro-life Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia (Pro Life &amp; Family), pro-abortion student activists in Italy interrupted an event held by a pro-life student group at the University of Milan last week, ultimately causing the event to be canceled. The incident was caught on video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the event &#8216;Welcoming Life: Stories of Free Choices,&#8217; organized by Obiettive Studenti, a student group associated with the Communion and Liberation Movement (a pro-life Catholic group), a group of radical left-wing students and activists (Udu, Rebelot, Cambiare Rotta \u2014 Communist Youth Organization) disrupted the proceedings,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/provitafamiglia\/status\/1862085563114992103?s=46&amp;t=uFEx6ZlpeSybXz-RFYWD6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia on X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udca5 ITALY: RADICAL ACTIVISTS<br \/>\nATTACK PRO-LIFE CONFERENCE<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2 During the event &#8220;Welcoming Life: Stories of Free Choices,&#8221; organized by Obiettivo Studenti, a student group associated with the Communion and Liberation Movement, a group of radical left-wing students and activists (Udu,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w306bmusRg\">pic.twitter.com\/w306bmusRg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia (@ProVitaFamiglia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProVitaFamiglia\/status\/1862085563114992103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The pro-abortion group entered the lecture hall where the event was being held and &#8220;engaged in blasphemy, insults, and both physical and verbal violence&#8230;&#8221; One pro-life student was &#8220;doused with water&#8221; and a security officer from the university was &#8220;shoved to the ground.&#8221; The pro-abortion students also allegedly &#8220;chanted offensive slogans, displayed banners, and set off smoke bombs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though police officers were present at the event, the planned speakers and the students who came to hear the speeches had to leave for their own safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unacceptable that in Italy \u2014 as evidenced by the repeated attacks on the @ProVitaFamiglia headquarters \u2014 it is no longer possible to freely express pro-life views without risking one&#8217;s physical safety,&#8221; said Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia.<\/p>\n<p>The offices of Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia has been targeted at least 13 times since 2023. In June of that year, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lgbt-vandalizes-italian-pro-life-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experienced<\/a> what it called &#8220;verbal violence&#8221; via vandalism when an LGBT group in Rome held a &#8220;Pride&#8221; event and decided to attack the pro-life group&#8217;s offices.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a rally <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/italian-pro-life-offices-vandalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned violent<\/a> against Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia. Its headquarters were attacked by about 200 people who graffitied the building with &#8220;Free abortion,&#8221; &#8220;Die, let&#8217;s choose free abortion,&#8221; and &#8220;Let&#8217;s burn the pro-lifers.&#8221; Someone also threw a Molotov cocktail at the building.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the office was again vandalized by a woman who glued her personal pro-abortion art to the office window. When the art was removed, the woman claimed the pro-life group was violating her freedom of expression and censoring her art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/end-taxpayer-dollars-to-planned-parenthood\/\"><b><i>Tell President Trump, RFK, Jr., Elon, and Vivek: Stop killing America\u2019s future. <\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/end-taxpayer-dollars-to-planned-parenthood\/\"><b><i>Defund Planned Parenthood NOW!<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the pro-life Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia (Pro Life &amp; Family), pro-abortion student activists in Italy interrupted an event held by a pro-life student group at the University of Milan last week, ultimately causing the event to be canceled. The incident was caught on video. &#8220;During the event &#8216;Welcoming Life: Stories of Free Choices,&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":322509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-abortion activists disrupt pro-life student event in Italy with smoke bombs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pro Vita &amp; Famiglia says pro-abortion student activists in Italy interrupted an event held by pro-life students at the University of Milan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-disrupt-pro-life-event-italy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-abortion activists disrupt pro-life student event in Italy with smoke bombs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro Vita &amp; 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