ABORTION: HALF IN 16 YEARS

Abortions continue to decline in Italy. In 16 years the number of terminations of pregnancy e’ passed by 209.000 cases in the 1980 a 129.000 in 1996. The data is’ was released by Istat which disclosed the provisional values ​​of the 1996.
According to the report of the Institute of Statistics, the greatest reduction in abortions involved women with the highest levels of education, while abortion rates are higher among women with low educational qualifications.
In absolute terms, then, from the approval of the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy yes and’ passed by 16,5 abortions per thousand women in age’ feconda a 9,3 in 1995 with a further reduction in 1996 to 9 per thousand. To contribute to the reduction of the phenomenon have been, for Istat, three factors: the law, the cultural change that led to planning motherhood and the demographic change that moved the age forward’ of marriage (gives 24 years a 27) reducing exposure to the probability of conception. To this abortion reduction ”Legal” there is also the reduction of abortions ”illegal” that, according to the estimates of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, would 40-45.000 against i 100.000 of the 1983.

The model of women who resort to healthcare facilities also changes. If until now the women who aborted most were married and with two children down now it grows
proportionately the percentage of women ”not married”: for the former, in fact, the reduction in the abortion rate e’ state of 34,5% while for the latter the reduction e’ was ”solo” of the 19,3%. Abortion e’ however for one in four women an experience that repeats itself: the 25% of interruptions in fact e’ requested by those who have already aborted once”. There is more abortion in the South where, among other things, there are fewer consultors. The Valle D’Aosta together with the Marche and Friuli Venezia Giulia are instead the three regions at the top of the ranking due to the reduction in the number of abortions.
Istat's volume on ”Voluntary termination of pregnancy in Italy” records in these three areas since 1980 al 1995 a decrease in the abortion rate, that is, the number of abortions each 1.000 women in eta’ fecund, respectively of 65% for the first and the 57,3% for the second and third.
In the last place there is’ instead Basilicata which in the same period instead saw an increase in abortions:+19,5%. But to truly understand the phenomenon, explains Istat, e’ It is necessary to consider the situations of the structures and migrations of women who move to other regions to have an abortion.
In Liguria the 74% of women heads to Tuscany, 80% of Calabrian women who have an abortion go to Rome, Milano, Florence and Bologna. Puglia welcomes the women of Basilicata since in Matera and’ the service for pregnancy terminations is absolutely absent.

Finally, the data on consultors that indicates the presence of risk areas in the regions where it is most aborted.

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