Refusing an abortion is a limit to women's freedom. Look at the map of objecting doctors in Italy
The issue of abortion in Italy was and always is much debated. Although voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) has been a right acquired since 1978 (see here the ten laws that have changed the lives of Italian women) often some phenomena seem hinder this freedom of women.
The most striking case is the conscientious objection of gynecologists, who for personal reasons refuse to practice abortions that women seek voluntarily. This makes it difficult for a woman to be able to exercise that right to abortion guaranteed by the law, which in fact stops so to be a right. What right is it if you are not in a position to exercise it?
In fact, the Council of Europe has recalled Italy for the violation of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy, which limits women's freedoms, and the cause is precisely the high number of objectors. But how many are there, and how are they distributed on the peninsula, these objectors? A map released by the official website of Internazionale makes it very clear, and you can see it in the image below.
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As is immediately apparent, the southern regions are those that have the highest percentage of objectors. The region with the highest percentage of objectors is Molise (85.7% of gynecologists refuse to practice abortions), followed by from Basilicata (85.2% of objecting doctors), Campania (83.9%) and Sicily (80.6%). Things are a little better in Puglia, with 69.7% of objectors. In the North, things are a bit different, but in any case the percentages of objectors remain high. Considering only the largest and most populated Nordic regions: 65.1% of objectors in Piedmont, 66.9 in Lombardy, 76.7 in Veneto. In short, even in the North, the threshold of objectors never falls below 50% of the total number of doctors authorized to perform abortions.
In short, more than one out of two doctors would refuse to carry out an abortion which is also in your full right to ask if you are within the first 90 days of pregnancy. A few days ago, a woman from Lazio was forced to abort a five-month-old fetus alone in the hospital bathroom (she suffers from a serious illness that her daughter allegedly contracted), because they had apparently refused to help her. Remember that if the health of the woman or the child is at stake, abortion is legal right up to the fifth month. Cases like this make one thing clear: conscientious objection by doctors is a hot topic, which involves a person's convictions and possibly religious beliefs, but this must not be the cause of terrible cases like this, let alone limit a women's right hardly won after years of struggle.
