00:00The OPA is a technical-scientific committee that is offered to the service of the community
00:12for an analysis of the costs and benefits of the application of Law 194 of 1978.
00:21Like any state law, like any state policy, an analysis of the costs and benefits
00:28serves to leave the policy the task of improving the policy itself,
00:36the implementation itself, in order to reach the common good.
00:40This report is the third that we have done and that you can find on the website www.observatorioaborto.it
00:51It is freely downloadable.
00:53It has highlighted that Law 194, in these 44 years, the latest data available in 2022,
01:02has had a considerable cost in economic terms.
01:06It has had a considerable cost in terms of complications with respect to women's health.
01:12It has not eliminated the plague of clandestine abortions.
01:17It has not improved maternal mortality,
01:22because we have done statistical studies on the ISTAT data
01:26and maternal mortality has not decreased with the introduction of the law on abortion.
01:32In addition, it has caused the termination of the lives of millions of children,
01:43because in addition to the 6 million there are many others that have not been reported
01:49or that are not considered because abortion is caused by postpartum pills.
01:57So, human costs, economic costs, social costs, what are the benefits?
02:02The work of the OPA is a technical work.
02:05We offer the science and the competence of our professors, of our doctors, of our members
02:14to give data to politics.
02:18It is politics that will then have to decide what to do with these data.
02:22We ask that they be taken into consideration.
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