Italophile

Just found the Messaggero article on it, so here’s a little more on the morning-after pill case. The most ridiculous stuff is in bold:

The prosecutor, after finding out [that the case had been delayed until June 5th], requested a filing of the positions of the three doctors because you cannot exclude “at least a putative level” the possibility that the day after pill could be an abortifacient and not a contraceptive, as the defense argues based on the consultancy of Silvio Viale, a gynecologist from Turin. The prosecutor has consulted the physician’s Rules of Order and the Pharmaceutical Association of Italy. Also, the prosecutor has asked for the filings because it is not proved that the accused doctors individually refused the woman the pill.

“My client,” explains the lawyer Gerardi, “wasn’t even registered upon her arrival at either hospital and both times she was seen not by a gynecologist but by a nurse who cut her off, saying that in those hospitals there were only doctors who objected to the pill and there for no one would administer it to her. In one case, one of the the nurses made a joke in poor-taste, saying ‘Let’s hope that your boyfriend’s sperm aren’t fertile so you won’t get pregnant.’”

Nice to see that the Italian health care system treats women so well.