Inaugurated in Rome a cemetery of unborn children

A cemetery of unborn children was inaugurated yesterday in Rome in the camposanto Laurentino, so that the fetuses of "spontaneous or therapeutic" abortion receive sepultura.

In the so-called "garden of los Angeles", an area of 600 square meters with two statues of angels in white marble and camellias, Deputy Mayor of the capital Swabian Belviso explained that the project responds "at the request of several mothers" so that their children are buried.

Italian law does not oblige to bury the fetuses, but this cemetery, according to Belviso, "responds to the requirement to give a place of burial to the bodies of unborn children who, without an explicit request, are eliminated similarly made from hospital wastes in landfills".

Clarified that this project "does not interfere in the law on abortion", which in Italy allows the termination of pregnancy before the 90 days of gestation, between the fourth and fifth month u000awhere this is due to therapeutic nature; When the mother's life at risk or when detected malformations in fetal

Belviso explained that the garden wants to "respond to the requests of those with the burial of his son, trying to restore the value to the fetus, which otherwise would be considered a hospitable residue".

The tombstones of the unborn will be all white, "it is not necessary to put the name of the mother" and is may translate into them "fantasy" names, but an identifying code, will appear behind added.

Cemetery may be used by anyone to make the request to the City Council, "will have its dedicated space in a day or two may bury the body," asserted.

In Italy there is already a similar cemetery in the city of Milan (North of the country).

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