, in October 2022 Roccella has described herself as a
conservative feminist and a
post-feminist. She is opposed to abortion, saying "I am a feminist and feminists have never considered abortion to be a right". She also opposes
in vitro fertilisation, and in 2013 founded ''Di mamma ce n'è una sola'' (There's only one mother), an organisation against
surrogacy. In the 1970s, she supported abortion, and wrote a book titled
Aborto, facciamolo da noi (Abortion, let's do it ourselves). In 2018, Roccella said that she would work to repeal the
recognition of same-sex civil unions in Italy, which had been legalised two years earlier. She opposed the Scalfarotto and Zan bills that supported
LGBT rights in Italy, describing the latter as a curb on freedom of expression. In 2023, Roccella stated that psychologists affirm the need or right for children to have a father and a mother, as opposed to same-sex parents. Her statement was rebutted by the psychological profession, first through the representatives of their professional boards in several Italian regions, then by the president of the whole national board, David Lazzari. The government she is part of ordered for
Milan city council, led by mayor
Giuseppe Sala, to cease registering same-sex couples a legal parents, an action it had practiced since 2018 in the absence of a national law. Roccella said that the order did not come from legislation but from a
Supreme Court of Cassation decision on the matter, which opponent
mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri said only applied to registering two mothers in the case of surrogacy. Roccella opposes
euthanasia. She was Undersecretary for Health in 2009 during the controversy surrounding
Eluana Englaro, a woman who spent 17 years in a
persistent vegetative state because the state refused her family's wish to remove her
feeding tube. Roccella said that if Italian law did not permit the sale of a
moped without written documentation, it should not permit the
right to die without written documentation. ==References==