Four police officers were hurt in clashes with protesters trying to get into a major conference on boosting Italy's birth rate just as Pope Francis was about to address it in Rome on Friday.
One of the protesters, a young woman, was hit on the head and taken away in an ambulance.
'Transfeminist' student protesters on Thursday shouted down Family and Birth rate Minister Eugenia Roccella at the event, the States General on Natality, in a protest against pro-life activists being let into abortion clinics.
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