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How doctors can stop abortions: Simply refuse to perform them

By Nicole Russell
Published December 19, 2018 8:26pm ET
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How doctors can stop abortions: Simply refuse to perform them
Nuns hold signs during an anti-abortion march as the dome of St. Peter's Basilica is seen in background, in Rome, Sunday, May 13, 2012. A few thousand people opposed to Italy's 1978 law allowing abortion have marched from the Colosseum to Castel Sant'Angelo, a landmark near the Vatican, in a protest drawing people from around the world, including Americans and Poles. | (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

The abortion debate in America could learn a lot from Italy, a country whose abortion rate has been steadily declining because doctors are simply refusing to do them.

PRI reports that even though abortion was legalized in Italy 40 years ago, access to abortion has been declining, as has the number of abortions, because so many doctors are simply objecting to the procedure.

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