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Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

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Forty years after the approval of the law 194, who introduced abortion in Italy, many of its supporters wonder how it is possible that a high number of conscientious objector doctors persists. The answer lies in the depths of the gaze or in the voice broken by emotion of some of them, like Dr. Antonio Oriente, 64 year old Sicilian gynecologist.
Today he is a doctor who works to convince undecided women to give birth to the children they are carrying, but for many years his hands performed abortions, “they killed other people's children”, as he himself bluntly admits in an interview with In Terris.
His professional history is intertwined with his personal one. And he started doing it in the 1980s, among the torments of a man who could not find serenity. “My wife, pediatrician, he adored and cared for children, but we couldn't have children of our own, not even with the path of artificial insemination, and she suffered terribly from it”, tells. He spent endless hours in the hospital room, trying to exorcise suffering with work commitment. “I was away from home for two days in a row – dice -, all absorbed in my work, which also consisted of performing abortions, in killing other people's children, while I couldn't have any of my own”.
THE TURNING POINT
The Dr. East could not understand the fact that medical science, which he had studied with passion and almost adoration, was unable to provide answers to his and his wife's need for parenthood. The beginning of the turning point came on an evening that seemed to herald the usual bitterness.
“It was the first months of 1986 – tells -, I had finished my shift at the clinic but had decided not to go home, I locked myself in my study with my head in my hands, thinking back to the pain I was experiencing with my wife and crying”. Precisely in those moments, a couple of people passed in front of the office that the doctor. Oriente had been following for infertility for some time. “They saw the lights – explains – and knowing that the clinic was closed at that time, they came in fearing that I had left the switch on or that I might have problems”. And in fact they found the doctor who treated them feeling unwell. “With them – he states – I found the courage to confide”. Read More