They were the first to lose their jobs, their companies "failed", without much social resistance, they watched the factories where they had spent their working lives being destroyed before their eyes, working on the jobs of making clothes, shoes, toys...
They, their interrupted lives, with no hope of finding another job, were not as important as their male counterparts, so the story of the destruction of a shipyard was always far more dramatic than the mass layoffs of female workers in a textile factory. The beginnings of the Croatian state also brought a conservative political doctrine, according to which a woman's place is in the home, she is to be the mother and educator of her children, and frequent childbirth was a recommendation from the highest state leadership, due to the importance of the demographic renewal of dying Croatia.
In those years, it was almost normal for a notorious right-winger in parliament to address his colleague who was getting on his nerves with the words: "Go home and give birth!", so that in the meantime that female population, those former workers, seamstresses, clerks... would become workers strength in the tourist industry, on which Croatia has put all its cards, so most of them today are cleaners, maids, waitresses, mostly service workers, paid an underestimatingly miserable, and thus dependent, non-independent, just as the conservative, Catholic Croatian husbands.
If, on the other hand, she wants to dispose of her own body at least and decides, often precisely for economic reasons, to terminate the pregnancy, only then will the Croatian woman face a hard wall of male hypocrisy, contempt, even the willingness to endanger her life, so that committed a sin and defiled the teachings of the influential Catholic Church.
Because abortions are no longer performed in most Croatian hospitals, the worst is in the Clinical Center in Split, where as many as 23 gynecologists are employed, but only one performs abortions. All the others, namely, appealed to the appeal of conscience! Abortion in Croatia is otherwise permitted by the law from 1978, but it does not seem to exist, instead, the attitude towards this procedure is created voluntaristically, and at the same time, because of breaking the law, no one bears any consequences. In Zagreb, as many as two-thirds of gynecologists made such an appeal to conscience, in Split almost all, while on the other hand, in liberal Rijeka and Pula, not a single gynecologist ever appealed to his conscience and refused the patient's wish to decide about her body.
According to official data, only 145 reported abortions were performed last year in Zagreb, which has a population of 70 million, and only XNUMX in Split, which gravitates to most of Dalmatia, so the director of Split gynecology rightly boasted that his institution is the national champion in denying women the right to legal abortion. But just a few days later, the other, painful side of the story about the incredible and dangerous phenomenon was called to the conscience of Croatian doctors through the shocking confession of a woman who came to the hospital in Split with a difficult decision to terminate her pregnancy.
They explained to her that "they don't do that" and that the procedure would have to be done privately, with the recommendation that she contact the "best" who, well, in the afternoon, when his well-paid work day at the state hospital ends, he no longer gives a five money on his conscience. "And I go to the 'best'," says the patient, "that same day in the afternoon." The waiting room is grey, dilapidated... the gynecologist in question ushers me into the doctor's office as if from a horror movie, he is in casual clothes, and the nurse, also without a coat or gloves, politely warns me to forget that I was ever there... I give the doctor money, which he quickly stuffs into pocket". And we are talking about 500 euros, which is the cost of this particularly shocking procedure for a woman, from which Croatian gynecologists earn fat money, treating women as lower, worthless beings, all in accordance with the socially tolerated so-called appeal of conscience.
Then the next morning, the same doctor appears at his workplace in the hospital in Split, bringing with him his own conscience, which he will appeal to until the afternoon, when his conscience suddenly shuts down, and he licks his lips in front of a new sum of money. In front of the entrance to the Clinic for Women's Diseases, they will proudly greet a crowd of worshipers who have been begging God for months to enlighten the mind of the only gynecologist, out of 23 of them, who does not feel guilty for performing his medical duties in a public hospital, instead of in dark, unconditioned rooms. and refuses to put his conscience on hold while he takes a hefty sum of undeclared money from some terrified, humiliated woman.
But the government tolerates the violation of the law, the hypocritical appeal of the conscience of doctors and the endangerment of women, as it turns a blind eye to religious education textbooks that teach that abortion is murder, while the increasingly powerful conservative right is already proposing a new law according to which only women who are victims of rape will have the right to abortion , and that with a previous conversation with the priest. If, however, some young people mobilized for the army, that is, for the war, had responded to the call of conscience at the time, they would certainly have ended up in prison because of their refusal to participate in real murders. For honorable gynecologists, "conscience" is just a great alibi for getting rich, but also for positioning within an increasingly conservative social community.
(Mladina; Peščanik.net)
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