The Silence of the Feminists?

Jill Stanek writes in World Net Daily:

In fact, Mafiosos aside, the Italian culture has always evoked thoughts of large, loving families.

No longer. Legalized abortion has poisoned Italy.

According to several foreign or Christian news reports like this one in SperoNews.com:

A 13-year-old girl is in the psychiatric unit of an Italian hospital after a forced abortion. The girl threatened suicide after her parents and an Italian court submitted her to an abortion, against her will.

According to "La Stampa" [Italian newspaper] young Valentina suffered a mental breakdown after Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo of the Court of Minors ruled that she must undergo the procedure to kill her child.

Valentina had become pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend and her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was "ruining her life" by becoming a mother. Valentina's mother said she did not have the money to support the child.

Under Italian law, the parents or guardians of a minor may force a child to undergo an abortion.

Since the abortion, Valentina has been confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin for wanting to commit suicide.

"You have made me kill, and now I kill myself," Valentina reportedly cried. "I am not crazy; I am only evil like a dog" for what her parents and the court have obliged her to do, she said.

Other reports stated the girl "went into a frenzy" after her forced abortion. As of Feb. 21, she was still in the psych ward.

This story creates dilemmas for abortion proponents, not the least of which is abortion can cause a mother to crack up. The other side could use this case to say parental notification laws are bad. The problem is they only fight these laws to free a girl to abort. To argue for her right to remain pregnant would be to take our position.

Which is why I could not find this story covered by any American mainstream news organizations, nor did I read of any Italian feminist groups arising to defend this girl's "right to choose."

Meanwhile, Italy is in the throes of a population crisis. The fertility rate is way below replacement levels, one of the lowest of any Western country – 1.33 children per woman.

I wonder why.

Question to feminists: Is the "right to choose" invoked only if a woman "chooses" to have an abortion? Is there or is there not an equal opportunity for a woman to "choose" life, in the face of others wishing death for her offspring?

The silence from the feminists is deafening on this issue.

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