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Italy's Emma Bonino, Champion of Battles to Legalise Abortion and ...

The former European commissioner and foreign minister led Italy’s abortion-rights fight and founded a campaign group before her death, colleagues said.

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ROME (AP) — 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.

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"The legacy he leaves? That of a woman with the courage of her ideas, able to pursue to the end her battles and therefore an example of courage,

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Emma Bonino, historical radical leader, died in Rome at 78 years old. We trace her life, her battles and Italy's moving farewell. Read more Emma Bonino: the life and battles of an icon of Italian politics on News.it.

Italy mourns the disappearance of Emma Bonino, a central figure of politics and civil rights in our country. To remember her with emotion and gratitude is also Arcigay, who, through the words of Secretary General Gabriele Piazzoni, emphasizes the profound legacy left by decades of public commitment. With the disappearance of Emma Bonino, Italy loses a political figure that has contributed, over decades of public commitment, to affirming the cent…

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Friday, September 11, 2026.
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