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Rome ( Fides Service) - Don Oreste Benzi, founder of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, has no doubts: “Tests on RU486, ‘month after pill, are yet another insult to Italian women and an act of violence against the unborn child”.
Don Benzi, in you opinion what would be the consequences if RU486 pill were introduced in Italy?
I say that after the introduction of the day after pill someone wants to introduce the second product produced to kill a human being I mean RU486. Italian women who find it difficult to bring up children today are pushed to have an abortion because no one cares about their difficulties: tomorrow thanks to this new pill they will be ever more alone, forced to abort alone in their homes, alone forever with the weight of this wound.
More than once you have said RU486 plays into the hands of those who exploit prostitutes. What do you mean?
The people who exploit slave prostitutes cannot wait for RU486 to be introduced here in Italy so they can stock up and make these women kill their children in total silence, far from any hospital where they might ask for help.
Don Benzi, what do you think about the recent Italian Bishops statement that RU486 is inadmissible?
I fully agree with Cardinal Ruini and the other Bishops. I think the bishops are one of the few voices raised to defend life, the family, marriage. With regard to marriage, we would do well to remind people of article 29 of Italy’s Constitution which should be put into practice. Anyone who fails to do so is an outlaw.
What is your opinion of the start of testing of RU486 in Italy?
In my opinion this is yet another insult to Italian women and an act of violence against the unborn child”.
Why?
Abortion is scandalous, but it is even more scandalous that this pill means women can abort at home, in the family and easily, as if a child were an unwanted object which can be thrown away. This is disgraceful and disgusting.
So you say these pills leave a bitter taste.
Very bitter. This will mean pimps can make their street slaves abort without any trouble, we will be faced with a slaughter. Today already, just think how tragic, 180,000 babies are never born, 140,000 are legally aborted and 40,000 are aborted in hiding. This pill will render the number much higher, who knows how high. I hope many parties and many politicians will take a stance against this pill. The Italians reacted with the referendum on fertility treatment demonstrating that they are able to recognise those who defend life and those who do not. (P.L.R.) (Agenzia Fides 22/11/2005 - Righe 36; Parole 482)
