Published: 2018-03-31

Chemical abortion at home? A new form of the use the abortion pill RU-486 in Italy

Andrzej Kobyliński
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2018.16.1.02

Abstract

The article focuses on the moral and political debate around chemical abortion, also known as pharmaceutical or medical abortion, in Italy. In April 2017, authorities in the Lazio region – the central region that includes Rome – issued an ordinance permitting the use of chemical abortion outside the hospital. As a result, Lazio became the first region in Italy to make abortion pills available at family planning clinics. A chemical abortion creates a serious reaction in a woman’s body in order to cause it to interrupt and expel the pregnancy. The global phenomenon of medical abortion is opening a new stage of the public dispute surrounding the beginning of human life and the recognition of the human embryo as a human being from the moment of conception.

Keywords:

ethics, bioethics, abortion pill RU-486, chemical abortion, medical abortion, human embryo, conscience clause

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Kobyliński, A. (2018). Chemical abortion at home? A new form of the use the abortion pill RU-486 in Italy. Studia Ecologiae Et Bioethicae, 16(1), 15–26. https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2018.16.1.02

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