Posted on 02/19/2007 4:16:44 PM PST by wagglebee
TURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl's pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa.
The girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother.
"You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,” Valentina's mother told her, saying that she did not have the money to support the child.
Despite Valentina's repeated attempts to make her parents understand she wanted to choose to keep her baby, the case went to the Court of Minors. Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo then issued the ruling to abort Valentina's child.
Under Italian law, a minor may not decide whether to keep or abort her child, and may be forced by her guardians or parents to undergo an abortion.
However, the abortion has meant nothing less than disaster for Valentina, who was confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin after the abortion for wanting to commit suicide.
“You have made me kill, and now I kill myself, I kill myself”, cried Valentina. "I do not want here to be," Valentina repeated. "I am not crazy, I am only evil like a dog for what my parents and the judges have obliged to make to me."
The case of Valentina is an egregious case of forced abortion in Italy, where one would expect that a woman‘s “right to choose” would mean the possibility of choosing life. However, the silence of purportedly "pro-choice" feminist groups has been deafening thus far over 13 year-old Valentina's forced abortion, despite her very own choice that her body should carry life.
To respectfully protest the Italian authorities:
Italian Embassy in U.S.
3000 Whitehaven Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20008
Tel (202) 612-4400
Fax (202) 518-2154
Italian Embassy in Ottawa
275 Slater Street, 21st Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H9
CANADA
t. +1.613.232.2401
f. +1.613.233.1484
email: ambasciata.ottawa@esteri.it
Italian Justice Ministry
Via Arenula, 70 - 00186 ROME
Tel: 06.68851
Web Site: http://www.giustizia.it
Email: ufficio.stampa@giustizia.it
callcenter@giustizia.it
See original story (in Italian) in La Stampa:
Obbligata ad abortire a 13 anni
http://www.lastampa.it/Torino/cmsSezioni/cronaca/200702artic...
La madre: non ho i soldi, devi abortire
http://www.lastampa.it/Torino/cmsSezioni/cronaca/200702artic...
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I can't believe this is the law in Italy.
This is what?
hmmm, where's the pope when you need him?
Grazie~ Io parlo e leggo Italiano. Mi piace leggere Italiano!
Everyone involved (except for the poor young girl who wanted to keep her baby) has just committed murder.
Each one should face the exact same treatment they demand for the unborn child.
Filthy animals!
Prayers for Valentina ~Pandora~
Dear Dr. Zoidberg,
"Filthy animals!"
Filthy animals take offense.
sitetest
However, the abortion has meant nothing less than disaster for Valentina, who was confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin after the abortion for wanting to commit suicide.
This is totally disgusting.
I agree that a priest as well as psychologists should be allowed to counsel this girl. Terrible as she must feel, she is not responsible for choosing to kill her child. She is not a murderer, her parents are, and the judge is.
She has not only lost her child, she has lost her parents as well. What a terrible thing.
Dear Dr.Zoidberg,
* chuckle *
Our exchange would be funnier, or at least easier to enjoy, if it were not about such barbarism.
It's a very sad story.
sitetest
And the Eurons think we're barbarians? This is nothing short of court ordered rape, above and beyond the killing of an unborn innocent. Two lives have been destroyed here, and at the parents' behest.
Prayers up! Poor Valentina! Forcing abortion on any girl or woman is evil! God give her solace! It doesn't say how far along she was. God bless the baby.
It's only about choice if you want it their way.
Truly Satan is behind this liberal agenda and this judge and her parents. Satan role on earth is to kill, steal, and destroy, and he's behind every agenda that endorses that. That's why the libs don't like the choice of life.
It's small consolation, but the baby's in heaven and will suffer no more. Prayers for that poor, poor girl. My youngest is 14 and I just can't imagine forcing her to do something like that.
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