Lidia Ravera, on abortion I jumped back 50 years

(by Nicoletta Tamberlich) (ANSA) - ROME, June 24 - "It is unthinkable that a right acquired 50 years ago will be abolished. If I look back, all my battles as for women's rights, I see them as sand in my hands . In the USA, the issue of abortion has always been a matter of political exchange as if alliances were to be created or destroyed on the woman's body. A topic always available to ideological and political battle ".

   Thus the writer and journalist Lidia Ravera, author of the cult book 'Porci con le ali', councilor for culture and youth policies between 2013 and 2018 in the Lazio regional council led by Nicola Zingaretti, who has always been committed to women's rights , questioned by ANSA on the Supreme Court decision that overturned the historic Roe Vs Wade ruling, which for almost 50 years had guaranteed access to abortion in the United States at the federal level.

   Ravera says (she hears her voice irritated and excited): "I am very shaken, for a series of reasons my daughter and my 6-year-old niece came to see me for a couple of days who live in Texas, she is married to an American Democrat, I don't like knowing them there. They live a few hundred meters from the school where the massacre of the children took place ".

Here, Ravera reasons, "this is the great America, a place where you can defend a fetus of a few days or weeks at all costs and allow a child of just 18 years of age to buy weapons and carry out a massacre in an elementary school. I spent nightmare days just knowing them. there. My daughter explained to me that this decision on abortion abortion had been in the air for some time when Trump was still around. "

    Abortion is illegal in Texas with immediate effect, affirmed Attorney General Ken Paxton, underlining that the structures that offer abortion can be considered "criminally liable starting from today" ..

   "Here I have no words - reaffirms Ravera - who I had to tell me that I had to get old and see this. "

   Women, stresses the journalist and writer, have "every right to choose whether to bring another person into the world or not, and when to do so. A mother who chooses will know how to raise more aware children".

The reasons that lead a woman to interrupt a pregnancy, she continues, "are many but they do not concern the principle itself. Motherhood today is a freedom of choice, not an obligation, not a duty, nor a commodity, it responds only to a desire, but this desire is important for the life of all, for the life of society itself, since he who is born without the desire of his mother is unhappy. For this reason - he concludes - in Italy too it is so important to continue to defend the right to abortion. ".

(HANDLE).