Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] Even with the awareness that the theme of human life is very broad, the contribution focuses on the most emblematic phases of human life: that of the beginning and that of the end. It is in these moments, in fact, that the attacks on human life are interpreted and proposed as "rights", "progress", "conquest" by morally and juridically changing social evaluation. While the "life" policies express the idea of a dominion over human life (individualistic and self-centered interpretation of human rights and a discriminatory interpretation of human dignity and the concept of person), those "for life" are put at the service of life by opening politics to the recognition of the human being from conception as a subject of rights and not as the object of the rights of others, as a person and not as a thing (human rights in a personalistic key: dignity is the equal essence of human existence and "person" is the other name of man). In summarizing the events and themes that from the 1970s to the present day have seen the policies "on life" and "for life" confront each other, the accent is placed on the passionate commitment of the Italian Life Movement that in addition to the 'welfare and educational-cultural activity, has carried out and carries out intense work on the political-legislative and jurisdictional level. The thematic areas concerned are abortion, reproductive technologies, the so-called "end of life" and the theme of the family - evidently connected to generativity - today insistently subjected to the provocations and manipulative attempts of the "gender theory". As can be seen from the analysis of the reported events and even more from the part relating to the European citizens' initiative One of us - which focuses its attention on the essential question around which all the problems concerning nascent life revolve - the "anthropological question" is eminently "biopolitical question".
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] "Life" and "for life" policies in Italy in the last 40 years |
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Original language | Italian |
Title of host publication | Proposte per una Biopolitica personalista |
Editors | ANTONIO GIOACCHINO, TAMBONE, VICTORADOLFO SPAGNOLO |
Pages | 43-66 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Movimento per la Vita
- aborto
- biodiritto
- biopolitica
- famiglia
- fine vita
- questione antropologica
- tecnologie riproduttive