{"id":5338,"date":"2005-12-03T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/12\/03\/threat-to-the-welfare-system\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T18:00:09","slug":"threat-to-the-welfare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/12\/threat-to-the-welfare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat to the welfare system"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT is baby bonus with an additional twist. In baby-strapped Italy, politicians are proposing that women be paid not to have abortions.<\/p>\n

The scheme – put forward by the left – comes at a time when the Roman Catholic church is urging a rethink of the country’s 1978 abortion law, reported The Guardian.<\/p>\n

It allows abortion on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Last year a majority of MPs from across all parties succeeded in bringing in a law on assisted fertilisation that gave embryos full rights from the point of conception. This could affect the abortion law. [Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

If consistancy was ever a measure when it came to abortion laws it would have an effect.<\/p>\n

With a general election due in four months, both sides are keen to woo the decisive Catholic vote.<\/p>\n

Under the scheme, women with financial problems would get between 250 euro ($495) and 350 euro a month for up to six months before giving birth.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the word scheme is used as a perjoraitve here? Regardless this looks to be a serious attempt at one of the causes for women to choose abortion.<\/p>\n

The low fertility rate threatens to undermine Italy’s competitiveness and make its welfare system unsustainable.<\/p>\n

We must stop abortion not because it is the murder of an innoncent human being, but much worse<\/em> because it threatens competiveness and the welfare system.<\/p>\n

Mr Giuseppe Fioroni, one of three MPs sponsoring the budget amendment, said: ‘We want to prevent children being considered as luxury goods in the way that they are now.’<\/p>\n

Mr Rocco Buttiglione, a staunchly Roman Catholic member of the Cabinet, said research showed that ‘a significant share of abortions – between 10 per cent and 15 per cent – take place for economic reasons’. <\/p>\n

Of course the story had to include a tie in to the Vatican.<\/p>\n

The language issuing from the Vatican has grown stronger in recent weeks with one cardinal describing abortion as ‘the worst kind of murder’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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