This article on the abortion law is published in issue 12 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 19, 2024.
March 4th, the day on which France, the first nation in the world, introduced the right to interrupt
voluntary pregnancy in its Constitution, I was reading Ejaculate responsibly
(Feltrinelli). It is the essay by an American with six children, Gabrielle Blair, who reasons on the fact that pregnancy, parenthood, abortion laws and contraception are still considered only women's problems, despite the fact that men are fifty times more fertile than women: «Women they are fertile for 24 hours a month, from puberty until menopause. Men are fertile 24 hours a day, every day of their lives. Women's fertility is largely unpredictable. Ovulation is involuntary, unlike ejaculation».
It will soon be two years since the Supreme Court of the United States decided to put an end to the protection of the right to abortion and consequently it will be up to individual states to regulate the right independently. After that decision, many banned abortions. Some, like
Texas, Alabama and Mississippi prohibit it even in cases of incest or rape. In Italy, where the
law has existed since 1978, there have never been so many conscientious objector doctors, and abortion
pharmacological, simpler and less invasive, is not increased but discouraged. I was thinking about all these contradictions while I was reading about the forty-year-old Bianca Balti, mother of two daughters, who froze her eggs four years ago and said that she will soon give the gift of “social freezing” to her eldest daughter too. It seems to me that, the way things are going, I'm right to think that if women had the ability to make this choice, it could help them be freer to manage their bodies and their relationships. But everything that concerns women's sexuality, their desire, their health, their social and biological freedom, is not considered a priority. On the contrary.
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