Posted on 09/12/2026 3:44:28 PM PDT by Morgana
ROME — Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy against the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78.
Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her death.
“Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedom: against clandestine abortion, world hunger, the stranglehold of party politics, female genital mutilation, punitive justice, genocide, and every form of authoritarianism,” the party said.
Italy’s conservative prime minister Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to Bonino, saying their different backgrounds and perspectives “never prevented me from acknowledging her significance and her role in our nation’s public life.”
“For decades, Emma Bonino has been a strong and recognizable voice in Italian politics, championing her ideas with determination,” Meloni wrote on social media.
Even after the Radicals’ political star faded, Bonino remained a key political figure and human rights campaigner active in Italy for over five decades. She served as a European commissioner for then-Premier Silvio Berlusconi and was a co-founder of the death penalty watchdog Hands Off Cain. But her bid in 1999 to become Italy’s first female president failed.
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Hell never fills up........
Abortion is NOT “freedom”!!
She’s fugly... Should have been aborted.
I do wish you all would not say stuff like that. No one should be aborted.
So far this week we’ve gotten rid of Steinem and now this one.
Who’s NEXT? They go in ‘threes.’
Who an Earth can PRAISE these ghouls? I’ll never understand it.
Evil woman. It’s beyond me why Pope Francis met cordially with this minion of satan. Doesn’t seem to have done a lick of good, but we can hope.
It’s sarcasm for someone like that, nothing more. Either way she’s dead which is good.
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