The difficulties of getting an abortion in Italy

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Under Italy’s abortion law, introduced in 1978, women can terminate a pregnancy within the first 90 days (and subsequently in exceptional cases). But the law also gives doctors a right to “conscientious objection”

to set the agenda in election campaigns. Today, social-media influencers also can. On August 23rd Chiara Ferragni, a social-media entrepreneur whose Instagram account has almost 28m followers, shared a photograph of an operating theatre. The post claimed that in Le Marche, a region in north-central Italy with a government led by the hard right, it was “practically impossible” to get an abortion.

Under Italy’s abortion law, introduced in 1978, women can terminate a pregnancy within the first 90 days . But the law also gives doctors a right to “conscientious objection”. It was intended to respect the beliefs of devout Roman Catholics. But the loophole offers a way out for doctors whose real motives have nothing to do with religion. A study published in 2015 found that they included perceptions of abortion as ‘dirty’ and unrewarding financially and professionally.

The result is that women often need to go far afield to have an abortion. And if they have limited financial resources, or work or family commitments, that can be a serious obstacle. Using updated figures from a paper in 2016 by Francesco Mattioli and colleagues,created a map showing the proportion of residents who want an abortion who had to go to another region to terminate their pregnancy.

In Le Marche, the share of abortion-seekers who went outside the region in 2020 was 10.9%%, compared with 4.7% across the country. In a third of the region’s 12 abortion clinics, the objection rates among gynaecologists is more than 80%. In the town of Jesi it is 100%.

 

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There are some ethical & medical questions here predicated upon the Hippocrates Oath.Are doctors meant to save lives?Second, could some pregnancies endanger a mother,s life?Upon these interrogative superstructures we could interpolate more questions.Its more than emotional issues

This how babies see a “willing doctor”, you sick killers

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And if this same thing of abortion if legalised In countries, governments should not make it cheap, because if so youths will carelessly get pregnant with a mind that they will manage aborting

I agree with you......and if possible even abstaining till the right time comes

It’s a wonderful day for babies when it’s hard to find a doctor willing to kill them! Use birth control. It’s that simple, ladies and gentlemen.

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That's a good thing 👍

“Quick!! Throw in the abortion debate!” It’s so desperately transparent.

So it is easier to be born in Italy.

Conscientious objection is important to keep everyone safe…..the mental health of staff is also important. I like their policy as fair and equitable.

More strict than the GOP proposal everyone is freaking out about....

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