All this talk about the vatican and Italy reminded me an argument I had with a friend of mine 2 years back... He said that its completely OK for doctors here not to tell a girl where the Abortion clinics are, in case she needs one, because the doctor may be religious and it will intefere his views.
*I* said, its bull. If you're a doctor: you must put your views aside and serve everyone who needs medical advice/ treatment!
to cut a long story short, I told him that even in countries like Italy where the pope and vatican supposidly "control" the country: doctors are obligated to give 100% of information to patients, and even countries like Israel where you may think orthodox jews control the country: abortion clinics phone numbers are on the wall out of the open...
oh man, that argument didn;t end well at all, I remember
I believe my friend called me a "communist" for making every doctor "obey"
to one line of thinking...
Oh well. It was a long time ago.