With the subject of abortion still being debated in Italy, anti-abortion groups have launched a petition with more than 106,000 signatures to force women wanting to have an abortion to listen to the heart of the fetus. The signatures collected far exceed the minimum required to modify a law by referendum.
While the United States has already been shaken by the questioning of abortion in the country, the Supreme Court having revoked this right leaving the States to choose alone the authorization to have recourse to an IVG (voluntary termination of pregnancy ), Italy is following the same path. An anti-abortion group in the country with a connection to the United States called Pro-Vita e Famiglia (Pro-Life and Family) expects to change Italian law allowing women to benefit from this right. In fact, they want to add two additional steps to the care pathways before patients can benefit from the treatment.
Since 1978, women in Italy have had the option of having an abortion within the first 90 days of pregnancy. Once these 90 days have passed, there are very specific exceptions: the patient’s life must be in danger or the fetus must have congenital malformations. The group therefore wishes to add two motions to this law in order to restrict it a little more, that doctors require patients to see the fetus and then hear its heart before proceeding with the abortion. A proposed law change which obtained nearly 106,000 signatures, including the support of 50 other groups, and which was given to the Italian parliament last week.
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