He was 28 years old when he came to Italy and already on his shoulders 4 children and at least six abortions, possibly 7, performed in his homeland Romania. When she moved to Ascoli Piceno, the number of abortions she underwent reached a total of 12. "At that point we asked for permission to be able to put the spiral free of charge and for several years we never saw her again."
To tell the story of this nomadic woman is Tiziana Antonucci, vice-president of the Aied counseling center in Ascoli, who is under an agreement with the local hospital regarding law 194. "One day this woman telephoned me - she recalls - and I immediately thought she was pregnant again, but to my surprise she wanted to make an appointment for her 18-year-old daughter who had been engaged for a month. Since the girl had never had sex yet, the mother first wanted her to put on the spiral. , she said, "repeat what I did." It really surprised me a lot and at that moment I was speechless. Later also my sister-in-law and sister brought me. Today she is over 40 years old. The story of this woman, the only one that has happened to me in many years of multiple abortions, shows that it is not prohibition, also represented by Salvini's words, but only the welcome that can reduce the damage and above all change the culture and therefore people's mentality ".
Antonucci has been working since 2000 to apply the law 194: "Before we had an average 10 pregnancy interruptions per week, now they have reduced to 4. From my experience on 100 abortions, only in 3/4 cases is it the second interruption Multiple multiples are now a rarity, they happened above all in the past and in particular among Eastern European women. Today it is different victims of multiple abortions are almost exclusively women who have psychiatric problems or addicted to drugs. Women who live more than a tragedy and they are not accepted by the health service, where there is always a guilty and judgmental attitude ".
On the same wavelength also the gynecologist Elisabetta Canitano, engaged for years in the defense of women's health. For 39 years he has been working at the Grassi hospital in Ostia, a border post in the capital and is president of the non-profit association "Vita di Donna" which offers telephone, online and visits in the most urgent cases.
"In our health system the services - he explains - are hostile towards all women, Italian and foreign, and out of desperation a minority, the most fragile and least informed, goes to the emergency room to ask for an abortion, but they are all sent away sometimes only with some more information ". Canitano also had a nomadic patient with a history of multiple miscarriages. "Five years ago - he says - we welcomed a 43-year-old nomad who had just moved to Italy. In Romania she had undergone 5 abortions. On her sixth abortion done in Italy we decided to insert the spiral directly after the interruption of pregnancy. When she woke up she was still on the stretcher and I told her that it was all right and that we had also inserted the spiral. She took my hands and kissed them. Women find constant obstacles for this to abort. "