When I性视界传媒檓 in Italy, I tend to focus on all things Italian.
I consume ridiculous quantities of pasta. I only drink Italian wines, although I did slip in a Bailey性视界传媒檚 on the flight to Milan.
I listen to Italian music on my Spotify list, speak Italian, and watch Italian television, not that I have a choice. I do these things because I want to immerse myself fully in the ancestral way of life.
While watching Italian programming, I came across a particularly gruesome case of domestic abuse, involving a man and his pregnant girlfriend.
I am proudly and strongly pro-life. The only time I see abortion as a viable option is to save the life of the mother. But as I was watching the story of Giulia Tramontano, a woman whose boyfriend first poisoned her to kill the baby, then stabbed her to death when that didn性视界传媒檛 work, I realized that abortion as a whole always diminishes the life of the mother while killing the baby.
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He didn性视界传媒檛 want the baby, which Giulia made clear was going to be born. She wanted the baby. And the fact that he did not was his problem, until he decided to make it hers by stabbing her to death, then burning her body to destroy the evidence.
Impagniatello was sentenced, again, to life imprisonment.
The court didn性视界传媒檛 say his sentence was so harsh because he性视界传媒檇 killed two people, but that was essentially the reasoning. Impagniatello had taken two precious lives out of this world, and is now paying with the effective cessation of his own.
The Italians do not have the death penalty, so you have to have committed the most heinous of crimes to get what they call 性视界传媒渓性视界传媒檈rgastolo,性视界传媒 or a life sentence. Clearly, the judges found that trying to poison a woman to cause her to abort her deeply loved and wanted child qualified as just such an evil act.
The judges were deliberating as my pro-life friends in America were celebrating the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which demolished the lie that killing an unborn child is a Constitutional right.
And they were still deliberating when I spoke up at this Italian legal conference I性视界传媒檓 attending to suggest that Roe v. Wade was a barbaric decision. Interestingly, no one heckled or mocked me, as happened at a conference I once gave for the Women性视界传媒檚 Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Those ladies were not amused by my pro-life advocacy. The Italian women I性视界传媒檝e met seem to have a more nuanced, empathetic and humane view of unborn life. They also dress a lot better.
And right after they handed down the life sentence, our U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision which will make it much easier to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that has only one goal: convince women they are slaves if they cannot exercise the right to kill their babies.
I feel blessed to be in Italy, for an incalculable number of reasons.
But I believe one of the most important issues is human dignity.
Sentencing a man to life for killing his pregnant girlfriend isn性视界传媒檛 enough, especially when you don性视界传媒檛 find premeditation.
Defunding Planned Parenthood isn性视界传媒檛 enough. Sending abortion back to the states isn性视界传媒檛 enough, especially in a state like mine 性视界传媒 Pennsylvania 性视界传媒 with a governor who is giddy over his love and support for abortion.
Watching as a court in my ancestral home says 性视界传媒渨e speak for two victims,性视界传媒 though, is powerful stuff.
