Italy's bid to have more children

Italy's bid to have more children MPs suggest bonus to stop ends December 04, 2005

IT is baby bonus with an additional twist.

In baby-strapped Italy, politicians are proposing that women be paid not to have ends.

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 end law, reported The Guardian.

Ed. The left want to waste taxpayers money, to stop people doing something that they advocate - that's lefty logic at it's most glaring...

It allows end on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Last year a majority of MPs from across all parties succeeded in bringing in a law on buttisted fertilisation that gave embryos full rights from the point of conception. This could affect the end law.

With a general election due in four months, both sides are keen to woo the decisive Catholic vote.

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.

The plan is outlined in a proposed amendment to next year's budget, which is

This move is the latest development in a rising controversy over end in Italy.

VATICAN'S VOICE

The language issuing from the Vatican has grown stronger in recent weeks with one cardinal describing end as 'the worst kind of liquidate'.

On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee gave the go-ahead for a commission of inquiry into the law, which was pbutted at a time when the feminist lobby in Italy was stronger and more active than today.

One reason for the latest initiative gathering support is that it addresses Italy's failure to produce enough children.

In 2003 the number of children per woman of childbearing age was only 1.27, one of the lowest in the world. A slight increase in recent years has been due to immigrant mothers.

The low fertility rate threatens to undermine Italy's compebreastiveness and make its welfare system unsustainable.

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.'

Mr Rocco Buttiglione, a staunchly Roman Catholic member of the Cabinet, said research showed that 'a significant share of ends - between 10 per cent and 15 per cent - take place for economic reasons'.

Ed. And has significant mental and physical repercussions - dissolution and cancer both increase correspondingly - all because they couldn't take responsibility for their actions...

But some are wary of the plan.

Social Democrat leader Enrico Boselli has accused the church of mounting 'a campaign to demonise' the 1978 law and criticised fellow opposition leaders for failing to stand up to the Vatican.

Ed. You can't demonise something that is already demonic - evidently Mr Boselli thinks end is a natural as, oh i don't know...giving birth?

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