Saturday, September 14, 2013

Abortion: Ministry of Health, "seven out of 10 gynecologists are objectors - AGI - Journalistic Agency Italy

18:03 September 13, 2013 Into (AGI) – Rome, September 13 – It remains the highest number of conscientious objectors in Italy who refuse to carry out abortions. According to the annual report on the law 194 of the Ministry of Health, sent in Parliament today, are almost seven out of ten gineocologi objectors, since, after the rapid growth of recent years, and is’ stabilized.
In fact, at the level national, and ‘rose from 58.7% of gynecologists objectors in 2005 to 69.2% in 2006 to 70.5% in 2007 to 71.5% in 2008 to 70.7% in 2009 and 69.3% in 2010 and 2011. Between the situation and the anesthetists ‘more’ stable with a variation from 45.7% in 2005 to 50.8% in 2010 and 47.5% in 2011. For the non-medical personnel and ‘a further rise, with values ??that are passed from 38.6% in 2005 to 43.1% in 2011. There are marked variations between regions. Percentages higher than 80% among gynecologists are mainly in the south: 88.4% in Campania, Molise 87.9%, 85.2% in Basilicata, Sicily 84.6%, 83.8% in Abruzzo, 81.8% in the PA of Bolzano and 80.7% in Lazio. Even for anesthesiologists values ??more ‘high are observed in the south (with a maximum of 78.1% in Sicily, 74.5% in Molise, Calabria in 72.8%, 72.4% and 71.4% in Lazio Campania). For non-medical values ??are more ‘low and have a higher variability’, with a maximum of 85.3% and 81.4% in Molise in Sicily. From 1983 to 2011, the percentage of objectors and Gynecologists’ increased from 59.1% to 69.3%, with an absolute increase of 10.2 percentage points (equal to a percentage increase of 17.3%). Increase, however, offset , according to the ministry, the reduction of abortions, up from 233,976 in 1983 to 111,415 in 2011, a decrease of 52.4%.
“Any difficulty ‘in access to services, then – according to in the report – are probably attributable to a distribution between operators with appropriate health facilities within each region. “
.

No comments:

Post a Comment