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Emma Bonino, leader of the abortion battle that changed Italy, dies at 78

Emma Bonino, leader of the abortion battle that changed Italy, dies at 78
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Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Radical Party campaign to legalize abortion in heavily Roman Catholic Italy over the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her death. “Her life was a long struggl...

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