with the rise of the extreme right, the right to abortion increasingly restricted

In Umbria, since the coming to power of the League, a right-wing party, it is increasingly difficult to have an abortion. At 67, when she should be retired, Marina Toschi is overwhelmed. The gynecologist must welcome a new patient in her practice in Perugia. These are women who can no longer get an abortion close to home. they. “This lady had to go to Tuscany to have an abortion, she couldn’t find a solution. Whereas normally, she should be able to come here, 100 meters from her home”, she explains. In the region, she is one of the last to agree to prescribe the abortion pill and ensure the follow-up of women. Because in Italy, the law allows doctors to refuse to perform an abortion. This is called conscientious objectors.

In the hospital of this region, they are 80% to refuse. Inadmissible for Marina: “We are in front of the Perugia hospital, the largest in Umbria, the one where medical abortions should be taught and practiced and we are not doing it. In Catholic universities, which are the best, they don’t talk about abortion or contraception and when you come back, they make you sign a document to become a conscientious objector.“A situation that worries women in the region. It is not likely to improve in the coming months. Giorgia Meloni, a far-right candidate and poll favorite for the post of Prime Minister, declared that she wanted maternity and find solutions to allow women not to have an abortion.