Abortion isn't a campaign issue

As the election campaign starts out in Italy, the question of abortion is already emerging as a hot-button issue. On February 11th, the leader of the right, Silvio Berlusconi said he would like the UN to impose a moratorium on the subject. On the 12th, the police caused a stir at a Napolese hospital after interrogating a woman who had just had an abortion for medical reasons. Francesco Merlo weighs in. "What would these seven officers have done if they had arrived during the operation instead of immediately afterwards? Would they have left the fetus inside this woman? ... This event reminds me of a story invented to show the idiocy of pro-life activists, to demonstrate to what lengths they will go in the name of a noble principle. ... Let's hope that this horrible episode in Naples will serve to show everyone the poverty of a vision that attributes the mad desire to abort to the left, and the defense of life to the right, in our pitiful country."

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