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Thursday May 25, 2006
Vatican Newspaper: "It's feminism we frankly did not feel the need for."
Italian Prime Minister Blasts Ministers for Abortion and Civil Union Talk
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by Hilary White
ROME, May 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Reuters reports that Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, reprimanded his ministers Tuesday for expressing their personal opinions on sensitive social issues such as abortion and homosexual civil unions. Although the recently elected Prime Minister had vowed to bring in legal recognition for homosexual partnerings, his coalition government is divided on these and similar issues.
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper rebuked Italy's health minister, Livia Turco, for her support of the deadly abortion drug, RU-486 which it called the weapon for "carefree murder." Turco had called the drug which has killed a "safe and alternative method" of abortion.
The L'Osservatore Romano editorial also took Family Minister, Rosy Bindi to task for her support for legal recognition of homosexual partnerings. "The haste in which new ministers are lining up to assert their intentions on particularly sensitive themes is disconcerting," the editorial said. "It's feminism we frankly did not feel the need for."
Silvio Berlusconi's government had halted experiments with RU-486 which was rushed to approval in the United States under pressure from feminist groups and abortion activists under the Clinton administration. Several American women have died of massive septic shock and complications using the drug and the FDA is under pressure to reconsider its approval.
One Italian MP, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, responded to Turco's recommendation of RU-486 saying, "What you eliminate with the RU-486 or a surgical abortion is not a blood clot but a fully-formed baby."
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