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INTERVISTA AD ELISABETTA CANITANO
Medico della Asl Rm D è responsabile del centro prevenzione tumori. Ginecologa, sessuologa, 52 anni. Dal 1981 ad oggi ha sempre worked in public hospitals. He is currently the Host of Family Counseling, works at the "Service Law 194/78," Grassi Hospital, and is president of Life of Women "at the International House of Women.

Dr. Canitano, her abortions for 27 years. What made all these years go on?

lot of things. I am a doctor of the National Health Service and the 194 is a state law. And where there is a law we must enforce it, enforce it. In the seventies, I have fought, along with many other people, so that women could terminate a pregnancy without risk to health: thought it was right to protect our health, to all, and aims at harm reduction.

The question now is very different then ...

On the one hand it is true, for another it is not at all.

What do you mean?

Some forget that the ' abortion has always existed and will always exist: the difference is that now a woman who decides to do an abortion - Italian, immigrants, foreign or both - can do hospital without risking life and without paying thousands di euro.

Un tempo, sino all'approvazione della 194, ci si rivolgeva a medici che lo facevano per molti soldi clandestinamente, oppure alle "mammane". L'interruzione di gravidanza era una delle prime cause di morte: sino al 1978 era reato abortire, e sia il medico (o chi l'aveva aiutata ad abortire) che la donna, rischiavano cinque anni di carcere. Per questo motivo, anche se si sentivano male, se c'era in atto un'emorragia, non andavano in ospedale, per paura del carcere.

Il suo "andare avanti" è un modo per sancire un diritto?

Certo. Mi sento dire da altri colleghi di non "mollare", but it's hard sometimes to go forward even for people like me doing it for so many years. Sometimes you weigh everything you've done and what you do. Other hand, thanks to the stories of patients, helping him understand.

If we give up what would become of them? And I can not stop because I say and who helps them then?

It is also a matter of principle then?

Abortion is a pain for everyone. For those who decide to do so, the doctor who practices it. But in most cases as they arise, at least in my experience, is the only thing possible. The reasons that lead to a woman to decide to interrupt a pregnancy is never superficial. Working many years in the ASL of Ostia (Roman neighborhood overlooking the sea, among the largest and most populous in the Capital, ed), there do I prevent tumor of the second level, and I follow the women for abortions at every stage, from the decision to ' intervention.

We talk and talk about it, let's look together. Believe me: It is never a decision taken lightly, even by the girls.

You continue to do abortions, despite being president of an association that protects the health of women and specializes in sexology. Why do it? Why us sono pochi medici disposti a farlo?

Guardi che anche trenta anni fa era difficile trovare dei ginecologi che li facessero. Io sono stata assunta proprio per fare interruzioni di gravidanza . Fui presa con quel "compito" ma il primario con il quale lavoravo era bravo, capì che era impossibile lasciare dei giovani medici relegati in un angolo e per di più a praticare solo aborti. Sarebbe stato troppo duro per la nostra psiche; non credo che avrei proseguito a fare questo lavoro se avessi praticato interruzioni su interruzioni senza capirne la ragione, senza capire perchè le donne rinunciavano a diventare madri.

E oggi?

I do it because I still believe in the secular state.

How many practice?

about ten a week, were once many more. The number of abortions has dropped dramatically in three decades, this does not ever say, how often, we pretend not to know that up to 140 thousand meo voluntary terminations conducted each year in Italy, two thirds are Italian and foreign third.

Do you think the 194 is to "review"?

at this time. It 's a good law, because it protects the most vulnerable women: le più povere, le meno alfabetizzate, le giovanissime, sono loro a ricorrere maggiormente all'aborto.

Neanche dopo l'arrivo negli ospedali della Ru486, la pillola abortiva?

Chissà. La Ru486 potrebbe accorciare i tempi entro i quali è possibile abortire. E questa potrebbe essere una cosa buona per le donne, per sentire meno il peso morale e psicologico.

di Anna Rita Cillis, "Salute" di Repubblica, 31 gennaio 2008

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