Home abortion also available in Sardinia, second region after Ercolano.

Sardinia leads the way among the regions of central and southern Italy for voluntary interruption of pregnancy with the pharmacological method. The Region has in fact a process has been started that will incorporate the national guidelines in this matter, aimed at making this practice possible also in authorised clinics and consulting rooms connected to a hospital facility, at no cost to patients. Furthermore, an experimental phase will be started which includes even the home administration of drugs used for abortion. The Council, on the proposal of the Health Councillor Armando Bartolazzi, has given the Health Directorate the mandate to the establishment of a technical table that prepares the guidelines regional addresses to carry out the voluntary interruption of pregnancy through pharmacological means also in the facilities outpatient clinics and in adequately public family counseling centers equipped, connected to a hospital structure and authorized from the Region. "After more than ten years of silence, Sardinia is making a great leap in quality and aligns with the most modern practices national and European level - explains Councillor Bartolazzi - This is a change that has been awaited for years and which places us among the most virtuous regions in terms of rights and modernization of health services. Experimentation for home administration of the drug is an innovative choice that Today only Emilia-Romagna has introduced it in Italy. A sign concrete attention and respect towards health and women's self-determination." Based on the 2022 data released by the Region, the percentage of scrapings is higher than average national (21% vs. 7.2%); 11.9% of surgical abortions carried out within 90 days is carried out under the regime ordinary hospitalization (the national average is 5%); on the other hand, medical abortion in a hospital setting is lower compared to the national average (38.1% against 51.3%), with a strong variability between different hospitals; furthermore, in Sardinia 8.9% of voluntary medical terminations of pregnancy exceeds the national figure, which stands at 7.4%.