Law 194 on voluntary termination of pregnancy "cannot be touched", continues to repeat the minister of the Family Eugenia Roccella, a proud anti-abortionist.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni herself has repeated this same concept several times.
What makes access to abortion in Italy complicated, however, is not the threat of a change in the law in the near future: it is instead its failure to apply it as always.
Italy has a chronic problem of conscientious objection of gynecologists and anesthesiologists: according to the latest ministerial report on 194, 69% of gynecologists and 47% of anesthesiologists refuse to perform abortions.
And access to pharmacological abortion, possible within 9 weeks of gestation, is consequently not easy at all.
