A niece of Sofia Loren, she was first elected to parliament in 1992 as a member of the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI).
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one such NGO, providing sexual and reproductive health services at clinics, within factories, in slum areas and elsewhere.
More than 100 other people have been formally placed under investigation, including Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome from 2008 to 2013 and a former member of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI).
Moderates, initially worried about the MSI's success, sometimes relied on MSI votes which proved embarrassing; in 1960, for example, when the MSI formed a necessary part of a parliamentary majority, protest riots led to the fall of the Christian Democratic government.
In December, Corinthians of São Paulo, which has formed a partnership with MSI, a mysterious British firm which many think is backed by Russian-oligarch money, bucked the trend.
He bought two American telecoms companies, Reltec and Fore Systems, specialising in the sort of switches, optical fibres and systems needed to keep Internet systems operating, and also snapped up an Israeli company, RDC, a smaller American software company and MSI, a wireless-network software company.
Scott Weinberg of the Population Research Institute, argues that MSI is actually promoting the spread of HIV in "filthy clinics" that mix infected and non-infected women.
In Kenya, for example, both local outposts of IPPF and MSI have had to close clinics, depriving thousands not only of family-planning advice but also of cervical-cancer screening and childhood immunisations.
Chris Smith, a Republican congressman, points out that there are plenty of groups that could replace MSI and IPPF in the field: "we want to make sure a country is abortion free, not moving towards free abortion".
