No i stało się, Włochy dopuściły do użycia RU-486. Poniżej przytaczam fragmenty tekstu wiadomości z agencji Associated Press, obecnej w internecie na stronach MSNBC.
ROME - Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican, which warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women who use it.
The pill is already available in a number of other European countries. Its approval by Italy's drug regulation authorities was praised by women's groups and pro-choice organizations, which say the pill will provide women with an additional, noninvasive procedure.
It drew the immediate protest of the Catholic Church, which opposes abortion and contraception.
"That's not how you alleviate human suffering, that's not how you help women, that's not how you help mankind," Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, a senior church bioethicist, said in an interview Friday with Associated Press Television News.
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Archbishop Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, issued a strong condemnation of abortion and the RU-486 pill in a front-page article in Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Friday. He said the church cannot passively sit back, and insisted the ethical implications of the pill could not be overlooked.
"An embryo is not a bunch of cells," Fisichella wrote. "It's real and full human life. Suppressing it is a responsibility nobody can take without fully knowing the consequences."
Sgreccia, who called the RU-486 "not a drug, but poison," said that women taking the pill or doctors administering are automatically excommunicated under church law.
There were about 121,000 abortions on demand in Italy in 2008, according to figures provided by Italy's health authorities. That number was down 48 percent from 1982 — the year when the number peaked after the referendum upholding the abortion law — and down 4 percent compared to the previous year.
But critics of RU-486 say that taking a pill might reverse that trend because it would make interrupting a pregnancy easier. They also fear that it would be possible to avert a mandatory hospitalization policy and effectively go back to the pre-legislation days of clandestine abortions performed at home without medical supervision.
"The apparent ease of this pharmacological method will inevitably lower the level of caution and responsibility," Romano Colozzi, the only member of the agency to vote against the use of the pill, told the ANSA news agency.
Supporters say it has no significant side effects and is safe.
Gabriella Pacini, a doctor with the Woman's Life group that provides medical counseling to women, said that RU-486 "has been used for years in Europe, on millions of women and is considered safe and effective."
"Why not give Italian women a choice between pharmacological abortion and surgical abortion?" she said.
The RU-486 pill, first introduced in France two decades ago, is known chemically as mifepristone and causes an embryo to detach from the uterine wall. A second pill, misoprostol, is used afterward to cause contractions and push the embryo out of the uterus.
Doctors can declare themselves conscientious objectors and refuse to carry out abortions.
Since 2000, Italy also allows the so-called morning-after pill, which prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall and growing into an embryo.
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Aborcja - ani chirurgiczna, ani farmakologiczna - nie jest bezpieczna, jak twierdzą jej propagatorzy. W tym cała rzecz, że jej istotą jest zadanie śmierci dziecku, którego z jakiegoś powodu nie chce przyjąć matka. Być może RU-486 prszynosi mniej powikłań dla zdrowia matki niż inne formy aborcji, ale o bezpieczeństwie nie może być mowy, bo ona musi być niebezpieczna - inaczej nie będzie skuteczna...
Nikt nie zmusi dziś kobiety do urodzenia dziecka. Jeśli chce je zabić - zrobi to, w ten, czy inny sposób, ale ciężko grzeszy ten, kto jej to ułatwia lub wręcz do zabójstwa neinarodzonego dziecka namawia. Nikogo się też do przynależności do Kościoła nie zmusi. Jeśli ktoś nie chce być w jedności ze wspólnotą Kościoła, jeśli ma swoją wizję wiary i życia moralnego - pójdzie swoją drogą. Ekskomunika związana z grzechem aborcji (obejmująca wszystkich, którzy doprowadzili do śmierci dziecka, czy to przez bezpośrednie wykonanie aborcji, nakłanianie do niej lub w inny sposób współuczestniczyli w tym grzechu) oznacza że drogi danego człowieka i wspólnoty Kościoła się rozeszły. Ktoś jest poza wspólnotą, bo wierzy inaczej, bo myśli inaczej, bo postępuje inaczej niż Kościół. Bo do wspólnoty nie można zmusić. Albo się w niej jest, albo nie...
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