One of us. Abortion law: the first amendment
As announced, we begin to illustrate, one by one, our proposed amendments to the draft law “regulation of voluntary termination of pregnancy”.
Article 1, going in order, is the one dedicated to “general purposes and principles” and on these the hand of “One of Us” could not pass light. If the elimination proposal in paragraph 1 is excluded, the specification “in the Republic of San Marino” dictated, not who knows what conspiracy, but by its usefulness for a San Marino law, the first substantial amendment is addressed to paragraph 2 and is aimed at allowing that ISS assisted women can undergo IVG only: – at the State Hospital, if in San Marino; – in structures that are both public and affiliated with the ISS, if outside the territory. In fact, we believe that turning to a private clinic, whether they are San Marino and / or affiliated, does not offer women, who are already experiencing the restlessness and loneliness of an unwanted pregnancy, sufficient guarantees of adequate assistance.
Furthermore, the annual number of interruptions for voluntary justification of pregnancy of unsecured ISS patients in San Marino the opening of private clinics, which therefore find their justification only if the San Marino legislation, if born of the Italian one, favors the influx of our territory of women intending to undergo abortions that could not be practiced in Italy. This scenario, only conventionally defined as “abortion tourism” to mimic the much more meritorious “vaccine tourism”, was rejected by all in the referendum campaign, and we would like to remove even the risk alone.
Then there is the risk, far from remote (the docufilm Unplanned docet), that the profit aim pursued by these structures, even if professional and equipped, pushes towards solutions that are always and in any case abortive (moreover, from now on, to expenses of the San Marino community), at times aggravated by macabre speculations also on fetal or embryonic tissues, as the chronicles of other countries sadly teach. We do not really need these risks in San Marino, nor can we tolerate that our fellow citizens, perhaps only because in search of greater confidentiality, they run into them outside the territory. We reiterate ad nauseam that for us the only right law on abortion is the one that prohibits it, but, having to dare following the referendum outcome, there is still no need to open up, for this type of intervention, to the appetites of the clinics. private. In the next issue we will tell you about another principle, stated but not applied.
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