| This first story is a very sad commentary on the way people are thinking these tragic days! May God have mercy on all those involved in this cruel murder of an innocent child and the horrors it caused in the 13-year-old! TURIN, February 21 (CNA) - A 13-year-old girl is in the psychiatric unit of an Italian hospital after a forced abortion. The girl threatened suicide after her parents and an Italian court submitted her to an abortion, against her will.
According to "La Stampa" young Valentina suffered a mental breakdown after Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo of the Court of Minors ruled that she must undergo the procedure to kill her child.
Valentina had become pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend and her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was "ruining her life" by becoming a mother. Valentina's mother said she did not have the money to support the child.
Under Italian law, the parents or guardians of a minor may force a child to undergo an abortion.
Since the abortion, Valentina has been confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin for wanting to commit suicide.
"You have made me kill, and now I kill myself," Valentina reportedly cried. "I am not crazy; I am only evil like a dog" for what her parents and the court have obliged her to do, she said.
************************************************************************************** BUENOS AIRES, February 21 (CNA) - Archbishop Domingo Castagna of Corrientes attacked abortion and the death penalty this week, noting that there are certain rights that must always be protected, such as "human life, the supreme gift, which when it exists, can never be taken by invoking another right."
"When conflicts occur - sometimes artificially initiated - the solution cannot be the suppression of that fundamental right (to life). Unfortunately, more and more politicians and judges do not understand this," the archbishop stated during his weekly radio broadcast.
He pointed out that for God "the value each person is of such importance that, even if a person commits a crime, he still retains his fundamental rights, because the guarantor of those rights will always be the one who granted them."
"Every person, no matter how serious a criminal he is, is made in the image of God and should tend towards the perfection of the One whose image they reflect - even though it appears unattainable.
Archbishop Castagna ended his comments by saying, "Man is worthy of love not because he personally deserves it but because of the dignity that has been conferred on him freely by his Creator." "There is a God in heaven. He will prevail." (St. Gerard Majella) Deacon John | 
