Vatican Gets Win in Failure of Referendum
ROME (AP) -- Backed by Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church forces have scored a solid victory as an Italian voter boycott doomed ballot initiatives to lift bans on egg-and-sperm donation, freezing of embryos and screening them for genetic defects and other widely used assisted fertility methods. The ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, The Associated Press (English)
Italiens Referendum zu Befruchtungen gescheitert
Rom (Reuters) - In Italien ist das Referendum über eine Liberalisierung künstlicher Befruchtungen wegen einer zu geringen Beteiligung gescheitert.Beobachter werten dies als großen Erfolg für die römisch-katholische Kirche, die zum Boykott der Abstimmung aufgerufen hatte.Bis 15.00 Uhr hatten die Italiener am Montag noch Zeit, ihre ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, Reuters Germany (German)
Vatican gets win in failure of referendum
Vote counters check ballots at the end of referendum pools on assisted fertility in Rome, Monday, June 13, 2005. Efforts to loosen Italy's assisted-fertility laws in a national referendum appeared likely to fail Monday because of low voter turnout that could invalidate the balloting, a result that would be a victory for the Vatican's boycott ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, Seattle Post (English)
Vatican victorious after boycott over fertility referendum
A generation after Italy embraced the permissive society and rebuffed the Catholic Church by endorsing divorce and then abortion, the Vatican got its own back yesterday. It sent an attempt to liberalise the law on IVF treatment to a humiliating failure. It is being called the great revenge. The referendum had been called to reform a new law, the ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, The Independent (English)
Liberals fear abortion ban after Vatican 'win' on fertility
LIBERALS said yesterday that they feared that a “victorious Vatican” would now seek to reverse reforms on abortion in Italy after the defeat of a referendum designed to relax restrictive Italian laws on assisted fertility. The defeated campaigners accused Pope Benedict XVI of “unwarranted interference in Italian affairs”, but ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, The Times (English)
Vatican gets victory in Italian referendum
ROME (AP) — Efforts to loosen Italy's assisted-fertility laws in a referendum failed Monday because low voter turnout invalidated the balloting — a victory for the Vatican. Turnout must be more than 50% of the electorate for the vote in a referendum to be valid. In two days of balloting, only 25.9% of voters in Italy had cast ballots, ...
Monday 2005-06-13, USA Today (English)
Italie: échec du référendum sur la procréation assistée
Peu après la fermeture des bureaux de vote lundi à 15h (13h GMT), la participation s'établissait aux alentours des 25%. (AP/Gregorio Borgia) ROME (AP) - C'est une victoire pour le Vatican qui appelait à boycotter le scrutin: le référendum national organisé sur deux jours en Italie, portant sur un éventuel assouplissement de la ...
Monday 2005-06-13, Canada Dot Com French (French)
Italie : échec du vote sur la bioéthique, succès pour l'Eglise
Les opérations de vote se sont déroulées lundi aussi timidement que la veille, quand le taux de participation (18,7%) laissait clairement présager que le quorum ne serait pas atteint. (Photo AFP.) Le référendum visant à faciliter la procréation assistée en Italie a échoué aujourd'hui en raison du faible taux de ...
Monday 2005-06-13, Le Figaro (French)
Italiens Kirche freut sich über ihren Sieg
Das gescheiterte Referendum über die künstliche Befruchtung löst Debatte aus - Abtreibungsgesetz ist nicht betroffen Rom - Nach dem Scheitern ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, Die Welt (German)
Vatican victorious after boycott over fertility referendum
14 June 2005 A generation after Italy embraced the permissive society and rebuffed the Catholic Church by endorsing divorce and then abortion, the Vatican got its own back yesterday. It sent an attempt to liberalise the law on IVF treatment to a humiliating failure. It is being called the great revenge. The referendum had been called to ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, Belfast Telegraph (English)
Vatican wins in Italy's vote on embryo creation
BY FRANCES D'EMILIO ROME -- In victory for the Vatican, Italian voters shunned a referendum that would have eliminated bans on egg and sperm donation, freezing embryos and other widely used methods by couples wanting to have children. Pope Benedict XVI had endorsed a call by Italian bishops for a boycott of the vote, held Sunday and ...
Tuesday 2005-06-14, Chicago Sun Times (English)
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