How many times in Italy is voluntary termination of pregnancy not guaranteed? It happens frequently, because, as we told last November with an investigation and a long conversation between actress Kasia Smutniak and Emma Bonino, for women in Italy, abortion is a real obstacle course. One figure above all: in our country more than 70 hospitals have over 70 per cent of conscientious objectors, as revealed by the research Never Data carried out by Chiara Lalli and Sonia Montegiove with the Luca Coscioni association.
Law 194 was approved in Italy in 1978, 44 years ago but still today there is no region in which there are no problems in accessing voluntary termination of pregnancy. With the consequent increase, difficult to monitor precisely, in the practice ofclandestine abortion. To clarify what happens in Italy to women who decide to terminate a pregnancy, the Luca Coscioni association has launched the online platform Freedomleaks, which allows you to collect anonymous reports on the application of law 194.
“We urgently asked the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia and the Minister for Technological Innovation Vittorio Colao that the data on the application of Law 194 be in an open, high-quality, updated and not aggregated format” , they explain Marco Cappato And Filomena Gallo, Treasurer and National Secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association. “It is useless to tear one’s clothes for what happens in the USA if what is foreseen in Italy is not then done to respect existing rights. The first condition for a correct application of a law is access to knowledge ».
The goal of Freedomleaks is to monitor the health status of Law 194 in our country, which is why it is aimed at anyone who has something to report about it: women who have had difficulty in finding information, booking visits or appointments, have received partial information, contradictory or incorrect, have been treated badly or have not obtained or have not obtained the service they were entitled to, but also medical students or postgraduates in Obstetrics and Gynecology who have something to report or tell.
To enter your report just connect to the platform, choose the context (Pregnancy Interruption / Law 194/78), indicate the category to which you belong, send the report and then wait for the code. Finally, it is important to keep the receipt, as it will be essential to eventually return to speak with Freedomleaks always protected by anonymity.
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Source: Vanity Fair
