“When the fetal state is reached, allow autonomous life”
When in the referendum campaign the Opposing Committee feared the risk, in the event of a YES victory, that it would be possible to have an abortion in San Marino up to the ninth month of pregnancy as the question did not place time limits on the execution of the IVG motivated by anomalies and malformations of the fetus, there were, on the one hand, diagnostics, those who tore their clothes saying that with the current progress of the prenatal this was an inconceivable hypothesis, and who, on the other hand, defended the completeness of the question as it would have been aspect of the legislator to decline this as many others considered “detailed”. We still remember the poster posted on the last day of the referendum campaign by the Organizing Committee, where it was written: “Abortion in the ninth month does not exist”. Unfortunately, this is not true as in some countries abortion is practiced up to the ninth month of pregnancy with a very simple technique: killing the baby in the mother’s womb. Well, we must bitterly note that “thinking badly got us caught”, given that in the draft law on the IVG it is not possible to find the maximum time limit beyond which it is no longer lawful to terminate a pregnancy. However, in the draft law there is (in article 5 paragraph 1) the principle according to which “where there is the possibility of independent life of the fetus, the doctor must take all suitable measures to safeguard its life.”. Given that for us life is life and has value even when it is not autonomous, otherwise they can paradoxically recognize as “does not live” all those people, even if they are already born, who need continuous assistance from others (children in preschool, non self-sufficient elderly people, people of all ages suffering from serious illnesses or disabilities etc.), today that, thanks to the advances in neonatal and pediatric resuscitation science, a child who has already reached the fetal stage corresponding to the 22nd age week of gestation has a 50% chance of surviving, so much so that even in neighboring Italy we avoid exceeding that limit. We have the guarantee and draw the consequences by proposing therefore necessary:
1) to give a more adequate place to this principle by placing it before article 1 (in the new paragraph 7), together with all the fundamental principles of the law;
2) to specify that in any case after the twenty-second week of gestation the IVG is no longer practicable, except of course in the case of imminent danger of life for the woman.
It will now be interesting to see if those who previously tore their clothes or who ensured the introduction of the introduction, will all be willing to finish this proposal of ours.
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