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LGBTQ advocates, women worry in Italy after Meloni’s win

People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Banner reads "I had an abortion and I don't regret it". (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Banner on the ground reads "Safe and free abortion for all". (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Milan, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Milan, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Milan, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Banner reads "no more advice, we want more protections". (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) FILE - Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta, right, kisses the hand of Più Europa party leader Emma Bonino during a press conference in Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP, File) Fabrizio Marrazzo, who ran on the ticket of the tiny Gay Party arrives for an interview with the Associated Press in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. Marrazzo said that the right-wing victors have spoken out "very clearly" against allowing legal recognition for non-biological children of a parent in a LGBTQ+ couple. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) FILE - Women protest against the World Congress of Families, a congress under the auspices of a U.S. organization that defines family as strictly centering around a mother and father, in Verona, Italy, Saturday, March 30, 2019. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File ) FILE - A woman holds a sign representing different kind of families during a march to protest the World Congress of Families, a congress under the auspices of a U.S. organization that defines family as strictly centering around a mother and father, in Verona, Italy, Saturday, March 30, 2019. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File ) FILE - People march to protest the World Congress of Families, a congress under the auspices of a U.S. organization that defines family as strictly centering around a mother and father, in Verona, Italy, Saturday, March 30, 2019. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File) FILE - Demonstrators march to celebrate the International Women's Day in Rome, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File ) FILE - Demonstrators gather in front of the Colosseum, seen in background, during a torch-lit march in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, to protest a recent spate of violence against gays in the capital and across Italy. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) FILE - Two men kiss each other outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during a candle-lit demonstration for gay rights, Saturday Dec. 6, 2008. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) FILE - Mauro Cioffari, left, puts a wedding ring on his partner Davide Conti's finger as their civil union is being registered by a municipality officer during a ceremony in Rome's Campidoglio Capitol Hill, Thursday, May 21, 2015. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file) FILE - Women wear signs with writing reading in Italian "Welfare is not the same for all", left, "Its not a woman's job", second from left, "Men advance; childbirth is not their problem," and "I don't have children but to be discriminated its enough to be a woman," right, during a demonstration in front of the Finance Ministry on International Women's Day in Rome, Monday, March 8, 2021. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File ) FILE - Models on the catwalk during a wedding fashion show with same-sex couples, dubbed "The rainbow wedding fashion show", part of a 'wedding fair' taking place in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the decisive victory by Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party in Italy's national election which took place Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, will bring setbacks for civil rights. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File )
LGBTQ advocates, women worry in Italy after Meloni’s win