San Marino, abortion law approved
The Great and General Council approved with 32 votes in favor, 7 against and 10 abstentions the law that regulates thevoluntary termination of pregnancy. What, to simplify, in Italy is commonly called law 194. Un result of epochal significance obtained following a long mediation yesterday on the thorny and divisive aspects.
The passing of a law was implicit in the referendum mandate, the debate is mainly concentration, “emergency” contraception and sex education in schools, the role of “associative structures” that can “support mothers”
In practice, it will be possible to take advantage of the law from its entry into forceexpected on the fifth day following that of its legal publication.
In fact, even if the law provides for the establishment of the counseling center, a paragraph has been inserted into the law that explains how “in the delays referred to in paragraph 1 and until the establishment of the counseling center, requests for access to voluntary termination of pregnancy are taken into account charged by the UOC Obstetrics and Gynecology of the ISS which delegates to the affiliated health facility outside the Republic “.
Cover photo, the representatives of the San Marino Women’s Union (UDS)