The low fertility rate threatens to undermine competitiveness and make Italy's welfare system unsustainable. Giuseppe Fioroni, one of three MPs sponsoring the budget amendment, said: "We want to prevent children being considered as luxury goods in the way that they are now."
Most developed nations are 'suffering' similar demagraphic issues, though probably Italy doesn't have enough immigration to offset low birthrate as in the Anglophone world. So could this attitude to abortion translate?
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Pay women not to have abortions, say Italian MPs: Filed in: abortion, Italy, incentives, population, welfare
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