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by altern8 17 hours ago
That's like 1 out of 1000 doctors, just go to another doctor. And even if that wasn't the case, what is the government supposed to do about that?
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Read the article. It's 67% of registered obgyns and fully 100% of some hospitals. Why would you believe it's 1 of 1000 in a world where countries consistently successfully create legislature targeting women?
Because I'm from Italy and I have women friends and I know that there are a lot of places where you can get a prescription for abortion pills.

We don't need random websites to hand out prescription drugs to kids.

In 2022 there were about 65k abortions in Italy, two thirds of which were with ru486. All of them completely legal and paid for by the national health care. Not sure there is a need for pills over mail.
It's great Italy it has the protections it does, but as long as there are practitioners or institutions that might not respect obtaining this healthcare (out of religion, belief system, whatever, the reason is irrelevant), there should be robust systems to avoid those challenges for those seeking said healthcare. Pills available by mail on demand, automated vending machines, etc.

As mentioned in the 1983 film "WarGames", "We ought to take the men out of the loop".

Do you realize that abortion pills are potentially dangerous..? That's why you have doctors prescribing drugs
> Do you realize that abortion pills are potentially dangerous..? That's why you have doctors prescribing drugs

False. They've been repeatedly shown in studies to be safe for home use. Having an abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term. Please update your priors.

Citations:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32912726/

https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/medicatio...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pregnancy-is-far-...

https://www.plancpills.org/

https://www.plancpills.org/guide-how-to-get-abortion-pills

> In 2019, it was reported that 67% of Italian gynecologists were registered as conscientious objectors and multiple hospitals reported having a 100% conscientious objection rate.
The same thing you'd do with a doctor with a penchant for harming their patients. Strip their license.
Strip them naked of their license