In the middle of a leafy Roman suburb, a tattered billboard glows under the scorching summer heat. “I am against abortion,” it reads, accompanied by a black-and-white picture of the late film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The use of Pasolini — an avowedly progressive, gay man — in an anti-abortion advertisement has not been well received by some, who have vandalised the poster by ripping it at the side. After all, in this Mediterranean country, abortion is still a thorny issue. The right to terminate a pregnancy in Italy has been in place since 1978 and is recognised by the Constitutional Cou…