“We drove for almost 150 kilometres just so she could have an abortion,” said Marte Manca, an activist from a local branch of the transfeminist group Non Una di Meno, based in Marche, a region in east-central Italy.
Last week, the group received a message from a woman living near Ancona, the region’s main city. She had tried to have an abortion in her local hospital, but the doctors had told her the wait would be 20 days.
“She was afraid she would have been out of time by then,” Manca explained. “There weren’t enough gynaecologists available to perform abortions in that hospital. In fact there’s only one, the others are conscientious objectors.”
