May 25, 2018 (Rorate Caeli) – Forty years ago, on May 22, 1978, under the name of Law 194 for the termination of pregnancy, state murder was introduced in Italy by a Christian Democrat ruling class. Murder, since Law 194 establishes the legitimacy of suppressing an innocent human being in his mother's womb. It is state murder, since this crime is approved, organized, and financed by the Italian State; it is mass murder, since there have been around six million victims of abortion in Italy, according to official estimates. It is a figure far superior to the total number of deaths in wars and natural disasters since the birth of the Italian State (1861) until today.
Emma Bonino – who along with Marco Panella fought rabidly for this law to be approved – in a video interview on May 22, 2018 for La Repubblica, said Law 194 “functioned” – that is, as a guillotine or a crematory oven functions, with not a word of compassion for those who are killed. Still – Bonino added – after forty years, “a review” is required – that is to say, to improve this law, as something still doesn't work well. What is the problem, then?
It is the high rate of conscientious objectors among doctors, which is impeding the full and thorough application of the law. Bonino is not interested in knowing the reasons for this objection of conscience; what is important (for her) is that the laws function, that the slaughter continues, and so she hopes for greater diffusion of pharmacological abortion by means of the abortion pill RU-486, which few still have recourse to. Emma Bonino, like many abortionists, considers the baby a growth in the mother's body, or if the abortionist admits that it is human life developing for nine months in the mother's womb, he has the vision of the interests of the State, of race, of the proletariat class, or of the single individual, which justify the killing of an innocent human being. This vision has only one name, which ought to be proclaimed in clear letters: barbarism.
Bonino doesn't even realize that something is changing in the world, that today it is not the feminist processions filling the streets, but the marches for life, like those that took place in Rome on May 19 and in Argentina on May 20. The mainstream media ignore these events, but a protest that springs from the natural law, engraved in indelible characters in the heart of every man, cannot be stopped. Under pressure by the pro-life movement in the United States, President Trump has done more (for that movement) in less than a year than his predecessors did in the previous thirty years. Even communist China, after the failure of the disastrous one-child-only policy, has decided that by the beginning of 2019, the limits imposed until now on births will be abolished.
In Italy, a new government is being formed. It is lamentable that in the so-called “contract of government,” the great themes of life and family are absent, or addressed only under the strictly economic aspect. And yet, as Virginia Coda Nunziante noted, if the language of economics is the only one that is understood, it is sufficient to begin removing the 200-300 million euros in public expense spent every year in the killing of our children and use the money to make the health system, not the abortuary, more functional. One of the reasons for the crisis in our country is the demographic collapse due to abortion and contraception, which in turn are the fruits of a hedonistic, relativist culture.
We will never be able to find a way out of the crisis if the conditions of the culture of death are not reversed. This is the message that comes from the March for Life and other recent initiatives, like Citizengo and ProVita Onlus, but also by the efforts of many young people, groups, and associations, who are not surrendering, who will keep on going. May the breakdown in the Italy of today be replaced by an Italy that rediscovers the Divine and Natural Law upon which to build its future.
Translation: Francesca Romana
Translated by Francesca Romana and published with permission from Rorate Caeli.