Remember the referendum on abortion? Now San Marino is increasingly adrift
From the decriminalization of abortion practice to ideological abortion the step is short, indeed very short. This is what the experience of San Marino is teaching – or rather remembering. In fact, in the small state, as will be remembered, was a Proposal referendum for the decriminalization of abortion. Following the victory of the “yes(77% out of 60% of the voters), a bill was presented which in the special Commission which, in fact, elaborated the text. A text not only morally unjust – as would be that of a norm that allowed prenatal suppression – but also saturated with contradictions and ideology.
Starting with the latter, just think of what Don Gabriele Mangiarotti, a pugnacious priest who, precisely for the pro life cause, in San Marino, spent unreservedly said a few days ago. In fact, Don Gabriele denounced the intention brought forward by the San Marino legislator to establish “a clinic for those who want to have an abortion that “provides counseling and psychological, gynecological and andrological assistance, for women and men, including minors, in all phases of their life and according to their sexual orientation … to all those who need psychological consultation relating to gender orientation” : But what does this (sexual and gender orientation) have to do with abortion?“.
It is difficult not to share these perplexities. Exactly how difficult it is, passing instead to the contradictions of the norm that was written starting from the aforementioned referendum result, it does not reveal all that according to which in the first twelve weeks from conception, in fact, you are not human you do not feel pain as the nerve bundles connected enough why. So you can suppress a life – it was decided – as long as Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy is mentioned in advance, in all capital letters, and not abortion, word “disrespectful », towards female sensitivity. And one could go on and on, listing anomalies and very singular passages, if a basic fact were not clear.
The fact is that, even in San Marino, the path of hypocrisy was chosen to legalize abortion. Not a new route, of course. Just think of Law 194 of the Italian State, which is configured above all as “rules for the social protection of maternity“ – of abortion, come “voluntary termination of pregnancy», We speak immediately afterwards, but this is the first part of the name of the standard – it is a pity that, decades later, of the “social protection of maternityThere is no trace, while unfortunately we have millions and millions of abortions that have already taken place. All this to say, or rather to reiterate, that what is happening in the San Marino state is really nothing new.
Simply, it is the confirmation of what was said at the beginning: the decriminalization of voluntary abortion brings with it ideological abortion, always. And this for a reason that is actually very easy to understand, which is this: the conceived is a human being. Point. Science not only does not deny but even confirms and strengthens this recognition of humanity. Consequently, in order to make – and maintain – abortion legal, politics and the right must be enslaved to mystifying logics, which confuse the waters and make the face of the unborn less recognizable. Which, however, here is the real point, is – and remains – a human face, the face of one of us. The face, therefore, of someone who deserves justice. And that it cannot be swamped with tricks and turns of words, however much one tries to do it.