Meno male che Silvio c'è

We have known for a long time that, to the godly, a womb is worth more than a life; now, thanks to the technology that can keep people's organs working long after the spirit has departed, we can see that a womb is also worth more than a death. One of the Vicar of Downing Street's very best chums has precipitated a constitutional crisis in Italy by issuing an emergency decree to rescue the dead body of a woman from a decent funeral. The woman, Eluana Englaro, has been in a vegetative state since a car accident in 1992, and the neo-Nazi eugenicists who pervade the medical profession have assured her father that she will never regain consciousness. Fortunately, Silvio Berlusconi and his friends at the Vatican are not the sort of men to let their moral uprightness be tainted by the petty, materialistic distinction that holds between a living human being and a mechanically stimulated piece of dead flesh. "This is murder," Silvio pronounced of the ten-year effort by Englaro's father to have his daughter's remains left in peace. "I would be failing to rescue her. I'm not a Pontius Pilate." With a degree of tact and sensitivity that even the Vicar of Downing Street might struggle to emulate, Silvio also noted that the woman's body is "in the condition to have babies".