San Marino. “Will the fate of the impending end shake our consciences?”
Milan Kundera, Giulio Meotti reminds us, talks about the dramatic situation in which the small nations of central Europe find themselves. And we can all think that it is a distant reality, different from ours. We are not Bulgaria, whose population has decreased by more than 11% in ten years and which seems destined to disappear within a few years.
“A Frenchman, a Russian, an Englishman are not used to asking questions about the survival of their nation. Their hymns speak of greatness and eternity. Central Europe as a homeland of small nations has its own world view based on a profound mistrust of history. History, this goddess of Hegel and Marx, which is the History of the victors. However, the peoples of Central Europe are not victorious. That is why in this of small nations that ‘are still dead’, the regional selection of Europe, of all of Europe, is visible more clearly and sooner than elsewhere. In this sense, the destiny of Central Europe appears as the anticipation of the European destiny in general and its culture assumes enormous importance ”.
But are we really sure that, starting this year, if the law that allows abortion, under those conditions made possible by the outcome of the Referendum, is approved, will the negative trend of births compared to deaths be able to change direction?
Or perhaps the time has not come to rethink the good of our Republic, given that, as Sergio Barducci recalled in the meeting organized by the UDS to comment on the prospects and future scenarios, regarding demography and so-called civil rights, Can’t many of those who voted for the introduction of abortion recognize what it was all about?
And this is perhaps also thanks to a public service that, beyond the facade, has not contributed to clarifying and understanding the reasons above all of those who fought to defend the right and the value of every human life, from its beginning to its end. natural?
If competing with communication is also to give a voice to those who have no voice, it seems to me that a cloak of silence and censorship has fallen on this theme which is so dramatic for the life of a people who want to remain free and open to life.
And if we do not want to dare to give space to those who, in addition to the life of the conceived, wish to put an end to the life of those who, due to a precarious age of health, have access to euthanasia, death at the hands of others, done through an act of compassion. .
And here, then, we hear the words of that contemporary novelist, Michel Houellebecq, who, speaking of euthanasia, puts it this way: “Well, I will have to be very expressed: when a country – a society, a civilization – comes to legalize euthanasia, in my eyes he loses all right to respect. It therefore becomes not only legitimate, but desirable to destroy it; so that something else – another country, another society, another civilization – has a chance to happen ».
May God forbid this to happen. May our holy founder and patron intercede so that respect for life, for every life, may be reborn among us, putting into action everything that can preserve and defend it. Moreover, the resources, moral and I believe also economic, are not lacking.
Gabriele Mangiarotti