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Ideas about fertility control and reproductive freedom engage a very wide and vexed set of issues and all moves for the legalisation of abortion have been the occasion of their sustained examination. In Italy the attempt to introduce a law mobilised Catholic fundamentalism on a far more extended scale than had the introduction of divorce. The anomalies posed by the extent of the illegal abortion business,1 together with a loosening of the cultural and social mores toward the end of the sixties, occasioned a growing recognition of the necessity to introduce some law on abortion.
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Caldwell, L. (1991). Abortion. In: Italian Family Matters. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21525-6_6
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