Un important milestone but from which to start again, and quickly. As Federica Di Martino (IVG, I have aborted and I’m fine) frames the publication, on the epicenter portal of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, of the first institutional map of all Italian structures in which it is possible to obtain abortion. To date, the mapping work had been carried out only by associations and networks, organized independently, willing to everything to try to guarantee access to the IVG to women in our country. That there is a mapping on the ISS website is in itself good news. «There are two critical issues: the first concerns The update of data which, while they are published, are already old. The second concerns the absence of Data on non -objective doctors in the structures. Recall that, in Italy, 63.9% are objectors. While in France they are less than 9 ».
Abortion, published on the ISS website the first map of the Italian structures
The mapping project IVG points active on the national territory He was born in 2020 and saw the light in April. For each region, both the sites of the reference hospitals can be found – not only public structures, but also accredited private individuals, clinics and consultors – be The data of the total number of IVG (voluntary pregnancy interruptions) carried out In the structures from 8 to 12 weeks of pregnancy, including pharmacological ones.
«The problem is that the uthalic data to which we refer are related to 2022. If not to 2021, it depends on the regions. And, missing those on the objectors, partial data must be considered. In any case, they must be updated, and this scrupulous work must be done constantly because the map is valid ».
How does abortion work in Italy?
Together with the map they were released information materials aimed at professionals but also for facilitate knowledge and access to women’s services by womenand in particular to those with migratory backgrounds (translated into 7 languages).
«Having a clear picture of the procedure is fundamental, and until today women have turned to us to ask us everything. How many days do you want to, if they can go to the Sun hospital or have to be accompanied, if they have to bring the absorbents or not. He cannot touch an association to fulfill this task ».
“But there are no data on objectors”
Finally, the great theme ofconscientious objection. «A pachydermal problem within an unworthy frame of a civilized country. Based on Law 194, each structure must have at least one non -objector doctor. But a doctor, it is evident, is not enough: otherwise it would end up doing only IVG, an improper workload, only on his shoulders ». And what happens if you get sick?
«But the problem is cultural. It is enough to see the availability of pharmacological abortion in Italian structures ».
Pharmacological abortion in Italy: the problem of times …
It is a health practice that in addition to avoiding, evidently, to the woman, the trauma of the surgical intervention, also allow them to be significant to the national health system. “The” problem “is that a pharmacological AVG can only be proceeded between 8 and 9 weeks of gestation. And often, between the discovery of pregnancy, the time necessary to obtain the certificate to abort and the week of reflection, you go for long ».
But that of the times is not the only problem. Pharmacological abortion is available only in some structures, and one might ask at this point, given the advantages that everyone gives, why.
At the manifestation of not one less for the day of safe abortion 2024, a provocative sign: abortion, in our country, seems to be allowed only if it is traumatic. (Photo by Andrea Ronchini/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
… and the cultural problem: if you don’t suffer (a lot), you can’t abort
«We recently saw him in Catania, where the three principals for the IVG did not allow him. I followed a Catenese woman who, then, tried to ask Acireale: the non -objector doctor was sick. Then to Biancavilla: not an objector on maternity. Next stop? Modica, 500 kilometers. In the end this woman suffered surgical abortion ».
The question remains: why? «My answer concerns the consideration of abortion in our country. If a practice decreases its load of suffering, it is not endorsed. Just see how the pharmacological abortion at home available in Emilia Romagna is looked at with bewilder, as if it were a delivery with Glovo or Just Eat. While it is a practice of civilization ».
On the contrary, the objection of consciousness by the doctors continues to be considered a right, “while it is not”, concludes Di Martino.
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