# Emma Bonino, leader of Italy’s abortion campaign, dies at 78

https://mins.news/en/video/55374

- The Associated Press, 2026-09-12 00:56 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGLNVSLKENc

> Emma Bonino, who became politically prominent by leading Radical Party campaigns that helped legalize abortion and divorce in heavily Roman Catholic Italy during the 1970s, has died at 78. The campaigns faced opposition from the Vatican.

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