{"id":9804,"date":"2019-10-28T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2019-12-27T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T02:29:52","slug":"italian-doctors-on-trial-for-manslaughter-after-refusing-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9804","title":{"rendered":"Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More than two-thirds of obstetricians exercise \u2018right to object\u2019 to terminations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Financial Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Hannah Roberts, Marianna Giusti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven Italian doctors who refused to perform a potentially life-saving abortion are fighting accusations of manslaughter in a trial that is expected to set a precedent for Italy\u2019s medical attitude towards the procedure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial held in Catania, Sicily, focuses on the circumstances of the death, in 2016, of five-months-pregnant Valentina Milluzzo. Members of Milluzzo\u2019s family, who gave evidence on Tuesday, said that when the 32-year-old was admitted to hospital with complications, doctors said her unborn twins would not survive but refused to terminate the pregnancies on moral grounds, which ultimately led to fatal sepsis. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5bd5e150-f994-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two-thirds of obstetricians exercise \u2018right to object\u2019 to terminations Financial Times Hannah Roberts, Marianna Giusti Seven Italian doctors who refused to perform a potentially life-saving abortion are fighting accusations of manslaughter in a trial that is expected to set a precedent for Italy\u2019s medical attitude towards the procedure. The trial held in Catania, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion&#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":[46,441,217,9],"tags":[2414],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-italy","category-lawsuits","category-news","tag-valentina-milluzzo"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion - 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=9804\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian doctors on trial for manslaughter after refusing abortion - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than two-thirds of obstetricians exercise \u2018right to object\u2019 to terminations Financial Times Hannah Roberts, Marianna Giusti Seven Italian doctors who refused to perform a potentially life-saving abortion are fighting accusations of manslaughter in a trial that is expected to set a precedent for Italy\u2019s medical attitude towards the procedure. 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