After Benedetta, 35, found out 11 weeks into her pregnancy
that the baby she wanted “with all myself” had extremely serious
genetic problems, she made a painful decision, and asked her longtime
gynecologist for an abortion.
Her doctor’s refusal — she said she was a conscientious objector to Italy’s law that makes abortion legal up to 90 days — set off a desperate scramble to find a doctor who would help her.
