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The Italian government has been plunged into a constitutional crisis over the fate of a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for the past 17 years. Eluana Englaro was left in a vegetative state after a car crash in 1992. After a decade-long court battle, doctors reduced her nutrition on Friday in preparation for removing her feeding tubes, which her father claims would be in accordance with her wishes.

But in an extraordinary turn of events, the country's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after consultation with the Vatican, has issued an emergency decree stating that food and water cannot be suspended for any patient depending upon them, reversing the earlier court ruling. On issuing the emergency decree, Berlusconi declared: "This is murder. I would be failing to rescue her. I'm not a Pontius Pilate."

Justifying his campaign to save Englaro's life, the prime minister added that, physically at least, she was "in the condition to have babies"

Silvio Berlusconi, The Guardian 70 Comments [2/12/2009 4:46:42 AM]
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#896667
Princess Rot

We really are just fucking uteruses to this fuckneck and his ilk. Remember kids, it's only necrophilia if they're dead! Blergh.

2/12/2009 10:45:15 PM
#896821
Old Viking

... in the condition to have babies."

No nasal congestion, no athlete's foot, no prominent abnormalities ... lots of good use can be made.

2/13/2009 12:01:47 AM
#898392
ZugTheMegasaurus

This actually made me physically ill. That guy needs to get hit by a bus. Or two.

2/13/2009 10:19:27 PM
#898444
GigaGuess

@ZugTheMegasaurus

Or just one, and have it back up again a couple times?

2/13/2009 11:21:11 PM
#903217
Mac

Soo.... you're saying you don't want to be an accomplice to murder but you have no problems being an accomplice to rape? Die in a fire!

2/17/2009 11:44:32 AM
#1406668
OhJohnNo

Ah, good ol' Berlusconi.

5/25/2012 6:56:05 AM
#1406801
Blue the Thief

A woman in a coma? I have the perfect man for her!



I'm a horrible person, aren't I? Not as bad as Berlusconi, though. Which reminds me:


5/25/2012 7:16:29 PM
#1406825


I haven't been able to have babies, maybe we should put me to death instead?

5/25/2012 10:49:18 PM
#1406833
Justanotheratheist

I am Italian and not ashamed of it - despite this sickening nonsense - but thank fuck I turned my back on the Catholic church years ago.

5/26/2012 1:52:53 AM
#1408929
LightsaberBlues

Lately he's been fucking teenage girls, but apparently they were too frisky for him. They tired him out quick. After all, he is in his 70s... Comatose women have a great advantage: they lie still, and don't toss around in bed like crazy...

For those wondering at the Vatican's involvement: mind you, they were silent accomplices in the Holocaust. Giving the nod to this is by far not their greatest crime.

6/1/2012 5:30:54 PM
#1408978
Punch

So you're going to keep her alive to have someone fuck her so she can have babies, because there's really nothing else she can do? Yea, lets make people in coma's be baby factories!

6/1/2012 9:32:34 PM
#1419119
Catholic and Enraged

Ma che cazzo, Papa Benedetto?! This is only justified IF the comatose woman manages to somehow wake up (the probability of this occurring is constantly diminishing with each passing day.).

Pope may be well-intentioned, but we must determine first if said patient is conscious enough to be aware of her surroundings. Which, given that she is in PVS, may be unlikely.

7/3/2012 8:24:23 AM
#1419316


Is it wrong that I'm getting off on this?

7/3/2012 9:33:10 PM
#1419347
Swede

The last sentence made me nauseous. I want a medical opinion that a comatose woman would actually be in condition to have a baby. I'd think all the muscles are so atrophied that it (as it's merely a body kept artificially alive, it's not really a "she" any longer) will not be able to provide nutrition to a fetus.

If it was her wish to not be wasting away, decade after decade, costing a fortune for nothing, then she ought to have been taken off life-support some 15 years ago at least.

There is no "her" to rescue anymore.

7/4/2012 2:33:48 AM
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LightsaberBlues

Oh, and by the way, Italians are renowned as extra-bigoted Catholics, They dare not even fart without asking the Vatican's consent...

8/4/2012 7:30:01 AM
#1430887
Nagol

Truly sickening, and more proof that most fundies see women as nothing more than baby-makers.

8/4/2012 9:27:04 AM
#1449842
Kenzisa

@CF

Holy fuck you're right. I saw this episode a while ago and was like: "Fuck, what kinda of fucked up person would do that to someone!?" Now we know. Excuse me, I need to bleach my entire being...

9/21/2012 8:31:15 AM
#1449850
Anon-e-moose

"the country's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after consultation with the Vatican"...

You had sex with an underage female, Silly Silvie, so no wonder then, that you had to 'consult' with similar-minded people, eh...?! [/hyper-sarcasm]

And why Mario Monti is the prime minister of Italy today. As in not you.


9/21/2012 8:43:36 AM
#1462345


Do Italians routinely have sex with people on their death beds? Cause uuuuurrrrgha

10/24/2012 4:43:49 PM
#1462359
Elia

I could rip his eyes out, tear open his throat and drain his blood, throw his carcass into a pit of rabid wolves, and burn the remnants, and it still wouldn't be enough to express my loathing.

10/24/2012 5:38:30 PM
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