(10 Apr 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of protesters carrying banner reading in Italian: "We decide about our bodies. Ferrara mind your own business."
2. Pan of protester, UPSOUND (Italian): "We will give you an expulsion card to exile you to the Vatican."
3. Tilt up from splattered eggs on street to policeman on left of other policemen cleaning egg off his pants
4. Tracking shot of broken eggs on ground
5. Close of newspaper editor and candidate for parliament Giuliano Ferrara's poster, promoting his 'Moratorium on Abortion'
6. Wide of news conference
7. Wide of news conference with Ferrara speaking
8. Various of Ferrara speaking
9. Close of nun in audience
10. Ferrara speaking
11. Ferrara leaving shaking hands with some members of the audience
12. Protesters outside shouting in Italian: "Vile, cowardly, worms."
STORYLINE
Dozens of protesters gathered outside a theatre in Rome where a candidate running for parliament on an anti-abortion platform was speaking - shouting insults and throwing eggs at police in riot gear.
Newspaper editor Giuliano Ferrara, a prominent supporter of opposition leader and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, sharpened the debate on abortion in Italy in recent months with his candidacy for Parliament in the April 13-14 elections on an anti-abortion platform.
Protesters marching through the streets held up a huge banner reading: "We decide about our bodies. Ferrara mind your own business."
The protesters also yelled at people entering event calling them "Vile, cowardly worms."
Ferrara's platform calls for a universal moratorium on abortion.
The proposal has been backed by top Catholic Church officials, including Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope's vicar for Rome.
Ferrara, who is close to Berlusconi, launched his appeal on the pages of his conservative Il Foglio newspaper a day after the UN General Assembly approved a non-binding resolution, pushed by Italy, calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.
Ferrara reasoned that if the UN could approve a moratorium on executions, it should approve one on abortions since (m) millions of "innocents" are killed each year in what he called the "supreme scandal of our time."
As he has campaigned around Italy in recent weeks Ferrara has been pelted with eggs and tomatoes by angry protesters.
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