Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
May 23. 2018
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 their 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 22nd
2018 for La Repubblica, said that Law 194 “functioned”. That is, like a guillotine or a crematory-oven
function, 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, consider the baby a growth on the mother’s body, or if they
admit that it is human life developing for nine months in the mother’s womb,
they have 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 19th
and in Argentina on May 20th. The mainstream media ignores these events,
but a protest which springs from the natural law, engraved in indelible
characters in the heart of every man, cannot be stopped. Under pressure by the
pro-life movements in the United States, President Trump, has done more [for
pro-life] 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 the fact 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 would be 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 more
functional, not the abortuary. 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, and may the breakdown in the Italy of
today, be replaced by an Italy which rediscovers the Divine and Natural Law upon
which to build its future.
Translation: Francesca Romana
There is a church in Rome not too far from the train station, Termini. Its exterior looks like many churches in Rome, white marble, baroque style. The fame of this church is not because of its rather over the top late baroque interior that leaves nothing to the imagination. It is famous because of the statue in one of its side chapels of St Teresa of Avila sculpted by the amazing baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The title of the sculpture is St Teresa in Ecstasy, a mind-blowing piece of reality sculpted in marble that catches the moment in which St Teresa is seized by the love of God and pierced by the arrow of the infinite love of God. Once you see this amazing work you never forget it.
