Italian women favor abortion rights. Abortion is legal in Italy, but strongly restricted because of the influence of the Catholic Church. As a result, Italy has one of the highest illegal abortion rates of developed nations in which the procedure is legal.
Further, a chemical in mifepristone may prevent ovarian and breast cancer.
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Gotta love the Italian Repro laws. If a woman wants IVF in Italy, they can only harvest 3 embryos. They must implant all 3 (without screening any of them). And if something goes wrong in the pregnancy, the woman has to carry all three to term. I told my Italian relatives that if they EVER had trouble conceiving, we would put them up in the US so that they could get it done here. Apparently, they’re not so big on pain management for birth either. Gotta love the Catholic Church!
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