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[Legal abortion and reproductive behavior in Italy].


 This article discusses the problem of voluntary abortion from a strictly demographic point of view. The act of voluntarily interrupting a pregnancy is considered as an action concretely showing women's personal difficulties in accepting any change in their own demographic situation, because of an unplanned conception (change from the status of unmarried girl to that of spouse or from mother of a single child to mother of 2 children). This study is necessarily partial since the statistical sources comprehensively present data only on legal abortions. This problem is discussed as the most relevant question concerning the study's results. The results, derived from an analysis of legal abortion by age and civil status, can be summarized as follows. All women seem to consider marriage the only preliminary condition in order to choose having a child. However, many women consider completing their education or a career more urgent than their own family building. On the other hand, married women who live with their husbands and children seem to be clearly unwilling to have more than a 2nd order birth. The youngest as well as the oldest women seem to be uncertain often about having a 2nd birth.
