{"id":7780,"date":"2017-03-06T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:04:10","slug":"italy-needs-abortion-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7780","title":{"rendered":"Italy Needs Abortion Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Barbie Latza Nadeau<\/p>\n<p>ROME \u2014 If a woman wants to end her pregnancy in Italy, she has the legal right to do so under the public health system within the first 90 days, or first trimester, of the gestation. The law, known in Italy as Law 194, has been on the books for nearly 40 years, but it has one major flaw, say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/01\/28\/pediatrician-it-s-not-about-being-pro-life-or-pro-choice-it-s-about-being-pro-parent.html\"> pro-choice<\/a> advocates: It allows for doctors, nurses, anesthetists, and other assistants to an abortion procedure to be conscientious objectors. Boiled down, that means that many administrators of hospitals and clinics who do not support the pro-choice law simply hire abortion doctors who object to performing abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of hiring conscientious objectors is all-too-common across Italy. The national estimate of conscientious objectors hired as public health gynecologists mandated to perform abortions is around 70 percent, meaning seven out of 10 doctors can, but won&#8217;t, do the procedure. . . 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The law, known in Italy as Law 194, has been on the books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italy Needs Abortion Doctors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,441,9],"tags":[1380,2928,2178],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-italy","category-news","tag-free-italian-association-of-gynaecologists-for-the-application-of-law-194","tag-san-camillo-hospital","tag-silvana-agatone"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Italy Needs Abortion Doctors - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7780\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italy Needs Abortion Doctors - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Daily Beast Barbie Latza Nadeau ROME \u2014 If a woman wants to end her pregnancy in Italy, she has the legal right to do so under the public health system within the first 90 days, or first trimester, of the gestation. 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