Italy
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Women in Europe who miscarry can be left to die by “conscientious objectors” – who go unpunished
March 26, 2025 Italian appeal court acquitted four doctors for refusing to save Valentina Milluzzo’s life In October 2016, Valentina Milluzzo of Italy, 32, was miscarrying much-wanted twins at 19 weeks of pregnancy. But she died in the Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania Sicily after being denied an abortion, despite no hope for survival of her […]
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ITALY – Appeal court acquits four doctors who refused to save the life of a woman who miscarried in their hospital
In Sicily, the Court of Appeal of Catania has just acquitted four doctors — Silvana Campione, Giuseppe Maria Alberto Calvo, Alessandra Coffaro, and Vincenzo Filippello — in the case of Valentina Milluzzo, 32 years old, who died from septic shock at the Cannizzaro Hospital on 16 October 2016. Milluzzo was pregnant with twins, who were […]