«We moved at national and provincial level to demonstrate against the current government’s measure regarding the new rule introduced on voluntary abortion”. As Antonella Rubbo, provincial secretary of the FP Cgil confederation, comments on the entry of pro-lifers into the clinics. «We organized a social moment – she says – at the same time as the demonstration in Rome to express our opinion against the law because, in our opinion, it represents a strong attack on women and their rights. That of resorting to abortion is a painful, painful and intimate choice that cannot be influenced by external interventions, even if aimed at protecting life. The presence of pro-life associations can only push women to no longer rely on free public structures and to resort to the clandestine market, putting their safety at risk.”
Currently at Rummo there is an active service for the voluntary termination of pregnancy which many women refer to, in an age range between 18 and 40, with an annual average of 150 abortions per 1000 children born, in line with the data national. The position of the CGIL in this regard is very harsh because, according to the union, an unborn child is better than an unwanted, mistreated child, the child of abused women, victims of trafficking. «The meaning of law 194/78 – he says Giannaserena Franzé, former provincial secretary of Fp Cgil, currently on the regional board – is to avoid clandestine abortion, to guarantee safe abortion and a culture of respect for women’s self-management. In the 70s my mother fought in the city, occupying public spaces to get a team of doctors to come from Capua and perform abortions in Rummo. The women of our territory cannot end up in the hands of mothers again, risking their lives. In fact, I believe that alternative solutions to hospital abortion, obtained with great sacrifices, would be sought in hidden areas, once again fueling a thriving market until the end of the 1970s.”
In those years, based on the testimonies of some women who told their stories, there were two different lines that could be followed, that of mothers who, for little money, using rudimentary household objects, procured abortions for unfortunate with often disastrous consequences ranging from the impossibility of having children in the future to death due to haemorrhage.
For women, often very young, who belonged to a higher social class, it was possible to have recourse to doctors who did not necessarily belong to the category of gynecologists and who, for a sum of between 500 and 700 thousand lire, assisted by a The obstetricians practiced abortion clandestinely in their clinics, without administering anesthetics because, at the end of the operation which, on average, lasted about an hour, the patients got up from the gynecological table and went home on their own legs.
Meanwhile, the Pnrr decree on the presence of pro-lifers in the clinics passed the Senate amidst a thousand controversies triggered by both politics and the trade unions, convinced that «if it is true that life must be protected, it is also true that women have the right to interrupt pregnancy without receiving pressure, if they are not willing or not suitable to carry out the task of parenting”.
The news cases at local and national level go in this direction. And in fact one cannot help but think of the deaf-mute woman from Campolattaro who, a few years ago, had massacred and thrown her little son into a cliff, of the other Samnite mother who had given birth and left the newborn naked on the balcony, saved by the timely intervention of 118 , called by a neighbor, to the five-month-old baby from Benevento who died of head trauma at Santobono. Nor can we ignore the story of Alessia Pifferi who left her 18-month-old daughter alone in her house for a week, causing her to die of starvation. Currently, the ASL’s maternal and child health clinics are 3 out of the 12 existing and are based in the city, in Cerreto Sannita and Montesarchio. Added to these are the 9 family clinics in the other districts.
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