World Control: Italy

Italy Judge Orders 13 Year-Old to Have Abortion as Parents Oppose Birth

An Italian judge has ordered a thirteen year-old girl to have an abortion because her parents are opposed to their daughter giving birth. The decision relies on laws in Italy that allow parents to make the pregnancy decisions for their teenage children.
Source: LifeNews.com, February 19, 2007

MPs suggest bonus to stop abortions

IT is baby bonus with an additional twist. In baby-strapped Italy, politicians are proposing that women be paid not to have abortions.
Source: The Electric New Paper, December 4, 2005

Actor forced to stop smoking

A Stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theatre to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
Source: The Australian, November 15, 2005

The road that catches and fines drivers who overtake in wrong place

Police in Rome have a new weapon in their quest to tame reckless drivers: a device to identify and fine people who ignore the double white lines that prohibit overtaking.
It comprises three video cameras coupled to sensors under the road surface. When the sensors detect a car crossing the white lines, the cameras catch the number plate. Traffic police then check the film to make sure that an offence has been committed and start an automatic process to fine the car’s owner €70 (£46) and impose three licence points.
Source: Times Online, June 29, 2005

Court rules against bid to remove crucifix

Italian state-run schools are fully entitled to hang crucifixes in their classrooms, an Italian high court ruled on Wednesday, thus rejecting a legal challenge raised by a non-Christian.
Source: IOL Europe, December 15, 2004