# Emma Bonino, leader of Italy’s abortion and divorce battles, dies at 78

https://mins.news/en/item/54610

- NBC News, 2026-09-11 13:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/italy/emma-bonino-leader-abortion-divorce-battles-changed-italy-dies-rcna597204

> Emma Bonino, who rose to prominence by leading Radical Party campaigns that helped legalize abortion and divorce in heavily Roman Catholic Italy during the 1970s, has died at 78. The Vatican opposed the changes.

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