Italy: Covid-19 Exacerbates Obstacles to Legal Abortion

Click to expand Image Banners and posters from a sit-in by pro-choice activists at the Ministry of Health in Rome on July 2, 2020. Organized by the Italian Abortion Contraception Network, activists and organizations called for free and accessible contraception and guaranteed access to abortion. © 2020 Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (London) – Government inaction has left women and girls facing avoidable obstacles to accessing legal abortion in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic, putting their health and lives at risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s…

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