The United Nations Human Rights
Committee on Tuesday called on Italy to ensure abortion
services, saying it was "concerned for the difficulty of access
to legal abortions because of the number of doctors who refuse
to practise terminations because of reasons of conscience". The
panel voiced concern over the widespread presence of
conscientious objectors across the country and therefore "the
significant number of back-street abortions". It said "the State
should adopt necessary measures to guarantee the free and timely
access to legal abortion services". Women's rights group
regularly complain over the difficulty of abortion access in
Italy due to the high proportion of doctors who object to
performing abortions because if goes against their Christian
consciences.
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