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Article: Abortion figuring prominently in early campaign for April elections
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- February 12, 2008
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Abortion is playing an important early role in Italy's election campaign, with front-runner Silvio Berlusconi endorsing a universal moratorium and a prominent journalist on Tuesday announcing an anti-abortion ticket.
Berlusconi told the weekly Tempi magazine that he believed the United Nations should recognize as a human right the right to life from "conception until natural death" _ using the same terminology the Vatican uses to express its opposition to abortion.
The former premier stressed, however, that his center-right allies were free to decide on the matter according to their own conscience.
Abortion in state hospitals until the end of the third month ...