TRIESTE More than one hundred days have passed since the closure of the two Trieste clinics, in the San Giacomo and San Giovanni offices, but the mobilization of activists continues.
And it is precisely on Wednesday 22 May, forty years after the approval of law 194/78 to protect the right of women to voluntary termination of pregnancy, that the Committee for consultancies presented at the Women’s House the dense program that will mobilize the activists on May 24th and 25th.
These are “two days of struggle and collective participation”, organized by Non una di meno together with the National Network of counseling centers and consultancies. The activists report that Trieste is already feeling the effects of the halving of the number of clinics. «With an understaffed staff and the twelve-hour opening of the two remaining offices, a specificity of the clinic is lost: the presence of a multidisciplinary team that responds to the needs of citizens», underlines Maria Cristina Marzola.
Tomorrow at 2.30pm the traveling flashmob will start from the Valmaura clinic to the Roiano clinic. A moment of reflection on gender violence will accompany the first day with the presentation, in San Giusto, of the book “Caliban and the witch” by the philosopher Silvia Federici.
Saturday will be a day with a national scope, conceived as an open-air laboratory to meet and dialogue with citizens on “absent consultants”, stimulating reflection on possible alternatives. From 4pm, interventions and working groups organized by experts will come to life to discuss self-examination, voluntary termination of pregnancy, pleasure, menopause and sexually transmitted diseases.
Spaces dedicated to children and adolescents will then populate Campo San Giacomo together with games for children on the theme of consent. «Let’s not forget – underlines Daniela Antoni – that counseling centers should have the obligation to talk about emotional and sexual education in schools».
“Our choice” is women’s cry for self-determination as well as a warning to what has been defined as «collective participation». The latest actions of the activists are evidence of this, from the launch of the new petition to request the Region to reopen the clinics to the online questionnaire which investigates the knowledge and use of proximity measures among citizens whose first results, over a thousand fewer responses of a month, will be presented on Saturday.
