Abstract
The passing of a law legalizing abortion in Italy was the parliamentary solution to a situation of illegality of scandalous proportions. The law, one of the most advanced in Western Europel was the result of a hard fought battle, a compromise solution won after six years of bargaining, delays and mass mobilization. The extreme discrepancy between the previous law on abortion and the reality of women's lives (estimates of three million illegal abortions a year were common) led to a campaign to change the law; it also led to extensive examination of what abortion means and what, as feminists we are asking-in terms of what is possible and what the limits are-when we demand and win rights through legislation.
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