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\"\"<\/a>What did not happen in Italy<\/strong> on the 22th May 1978 e in Ireland<\/strong> on the 25th May 2018,\u00a0happened yesterday in Argentina<\/strong><\/span>. The legalisation of abortion<\/strong> has been historically rejected by 38 deputees against 31, by preferring to save \u201cboth lives\u201d \u2013 according to the Argentinian pro-life slogans \u2013 the mother\u2019s and the child\u2019s. The militancy for the \u201cno\u201d side by the Episcopal conference<\/strong>, guided by Bishops close to Argentinian Pope Bergoglio and personally chosen by him, was pretty influential.<\/p>\n

It was a defeat<\/strong><\/span> for the powerful mediatic apparatus which literally censored<\/strong> thousands of pro-life demonstrators characterised by the colour \u201clight blue\u201d: on the newspaper\u2019s page there are\u00a0only and exclusively<\/em><\/a> pictures of \u201cgreen\u201d flags<\/strong>, the pro-abortion ones (and also in these first minutes after the vote, the foreign newspapers \u2013 in Italy almost nobody has reported this news yet \u2013 choose pictures of \u201cgreen\u201d sad and disconsolate demonstrators while ignoring the exulting \u201clight blue sea\u201d). An example amongst all the other ones: although a survey<\/a><\/em> had reported that the majority of the Argentinian<\/strong> women was sided against abortion, but Italian newspaper\u00a0La Stampa<\/em><\/a> was giving information about the event by recounting the women\u2019s battle for legal abortion and by giving visibility only to the \u201cgreen sea\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is a victory<\/strong><\/span> for those who do not believe that history is irreversible. The fact that Ireland<\/strong> surrendered does not mean that the battle for the right to life is compromised. El Salvador<\/strong>\u00a0has recently rejected<\/a><\/em> the bill on the interruption of pregnancy, thereby frustrating the pressures by the New York Times<\/em>\u00a0e\u00a0Amnesty International<\/em> \u2013, and the same was done by Argentina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Day before yesterday<\/a><\/em> we were reporting how much the Church put herself out till the end<\/strong>, as was reminded by Clarin<\/em><\/a>, the main newspaper of Buenos Aires. Even l’Osservatore Romano<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Vatican News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0followed the debate in these months and highlighted the mobilisation in defence of life and \u201cin favour of the discarded\u201d. Bergoglian language, clearly, as the Pope<\/strong> was, though, a protagonist. Firstly, because the Bishops organised marches and celebrations, asked for the intercession of the Virgin of Luj\u00e1n \u2013 patron of the Argentinian people \u2013, animated<\/a> <\/em>Catholics, Protestants, and non-Catholics with many quotes of Pope Francis<\/strong> on abortion as tragedy and \u00abnot as a right\u00bb<\/em> (according to the words of Bishop Oscar Ojea). Secondly, because the most active pastors were<\/a><\/em> V\u00edctor Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Archbishop of La Plata and personal collaborator of Pope Bergoglio, and card. Mario Poli<\/strong>, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who kept<\/a><\/em> the anti-abortion deputees united, Poli was chosen by Francis as his successor in the Archdiocesis of the Argentinian Capital, where he celebrated<\/a><\/em> a Mass \u201cfor life\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Episcopal Conference managed to mobilise many votes of the the left wing and of the feminists<\/strong>. The intervention that will be remembered the longest will be the one<\/a><\/em> of deputee Luis Gustavo Contigiani<\/strong>, member of the Frente Progresista C\u00edvico y Social<\/em>, who, aware of the incidence of his words, announced \u2013 with passion and emotion \u2013 his support to life. As a convinced socialist<\/strong>, he stated that \u00abthere is no more revolutionary act than to defend life and social justice for the homeland. I cannot dissociate<\/strong> my fight for social justice, for the development of our country, for the weaker, for the equality of opportunities from the one for the right to life of who is in his mother\u2019s womb and has the same right to live as his mother. We do justice in the economic field; I am the first to defend work, to defend the poor, but in the field of life we are privatists: we surrender to the market; there is no more public interest, nobody that defends anyone. I desire to be coherent, Mr. President!\u00bb<\/em>. And there was coherence.<\/p>\n

The Editorial staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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