4 January 2008

Law 194, useless discussions

The revision of the abortion law, law 194, is one of the main political debates of the beginning of 2008. As far as I am concerned, a woman should not have an abortion, but I don’t claim that my choices should have precedence over decisions made by other people.
I reckon that the law 194, even with its imperfections, present anyway in all the other laws, should not be modified. I don’t see reasons why it should. Law 194 has functioned. I don’t think there is any doubt about this. And it has protected the liberty of thousands of women to be in charge of their own lives. The current debate has two aspects that disturb me as a citizen and as a politician. The first is that a discussion about civil rights is being influenced and perhaps being directed by religion. The second is that with all the unresolved problems in the country, and there are thousands of them, there’s debate (and the waste of precious time) about a law that is working, a law that was approved by Italians in a referendum. The image that the political class is giving out, one more time, is to be living in a different world, isolated and far off from the Italians and their expectations.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Society