LAIGA

The association LAIGA (Libera Associazione Italiana Ginecologi non obiettori per l'Applicazione della 194) was born from the commitment of two non-objecting gynaecologists: Dr. Silvana Agatone and Dr. Concetta Grande, colleagues in the service of Law Enforcement 194/78 of the Sandro Pertini Hospital in Rome. Starting from the idea that it is important to compare and support each other in a cultural and health system that often does not protect the application of the law on abortion, L.A.I.G.A. was founded on 10 June 2008, with the aim of networking between health personnel involved in the VTP (Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy) service and therapeutic abortion. In fact, for years the Association has been organising conferences, press conferences and other opportunities to meet, count, get to know each other and try to improve and safeguard the application of law 194. Knowing and counting each other is an itinerant objective that is very close to Laiga's heart, since at the moment there is no list or mapping, either at regional level or at the Ministry of Health, of the actual centres and operators that apply Law 194. We have recorded a large number of attacks and threats to the right to abortion and in particular to this law: the statements made in the newspapers by various politicians, the campaigns of movements against civil rights, the various cases of legal disputes that occurred in 2008, including the striking one of a woman who, in a hospital in Naples, while she was undergoing a therapeutic abortion for foetal problems, was placed under investigation, together with the non-objecting gynaecologist. Laiga was born thanks to the need to be on the side of women by advocating for the RIGHT TO ABORTION to be guaranteed and applied, and to protect and promote the work and collaboration of non-objector doctors who safeguard the right and the health of women.